Lightning

Last night we drove west to Burlington, IA on an annual outing to meet relatives for supper. We ate at Gator's, a restaurant with good food, which has a live alligator in a tank in the lobby. We got home around 11:00, and shortly thereafter we were startled by a crash of lightning very close by. It was an isolated strike that wasn't accompanied by any thunder preceding it or after it. We finally got to bed around midnight. At 6:00 in the morning when I went out to get the paper in, I noticed a fire across the road in our neighbor's front yard. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the lightning had struck a tall, living pine tree, blew a section about 12 feet high out of it, and the tree fell against her porch and was on fire. Fortunately it rained all night ,and with the tree being green the fire was small and slow burning. She had slept through it and was surprised when I woke her up.
A mighty display of God's power!

Job 37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

Luk 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Mat 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.