The storms in life can truly be raging.
It can get to the point where you don’t know if you’re going to make it. You can be hanging on for dear life to anything that will hold you as you’re buffeting one way and the other. Bills blowing on the one side. Relationship challenges whipping up a gust that threatens to wipe you out on the other side.
It can get a bit much.
You could do with a word like this,
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. ‘ (Mark 4:39)
It’s a reassuring word when the storm gets so rough that we don’t know how we’ll make it through.
Remember, however, that there is a point to being on the vessel in the first place. There is a reason for traversing thoses rolling billows and tortuous waves. The point of even calming the storm is …
So they arrived at the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gerasenes. (Mark 5:1)
You might think that this is as obvious as the answer to the age old question of why the chicken crossed the road. Reading further, however, reveals the great purpose for the crossing in the first place. This is why the reassuring word that you’re making it across is important and that’s why the storms of life have to be seen from that perspective. They form a part of the journey, but don’t have to be feared as the end of it. It especially cannnot be the end of it because there’s a reason to get to the other side …
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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