Time lapse photography of the LA Station fire.

After watching the video again and considering nature's power I recalled a passage from Hebrews 10:

26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Our world is an unpredictable and terrifying place but it is only the dimmest shadow compared to the wrath of God and His burning anger towards sin. In a very real way, our Father in Heaven is infinitely more terrifying than "Mother Nature" and He demands justice for our sinful law-breaking. Thus, in Christ alone is there no room for fear for He only has taken our sins and our punishment upon Himself. He has eternally cast them into the lake of fire with our adversary Satan to be burned up forever. We find this hope in the prophet Micah's words in chapter 7 of the last book of the Old Testament:

¹⁸ Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.

¹⁹ You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

It is always good to put these truths to song so please listen to Audio Adrenaline's song about how God has forgotten all our sins and buried them on the ocean floor:

Psalm 100:5 - "For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations."