The place of life you find yourself may be one of chaos and questions? This time of uncertainty and unknown has you asking God, “Why me, Lord?” You are not alone, my Friend! You can trust God in the storms of your life.
The sound of thunder and lightning woke me in the night. Rain is pouring the window panes and roof in a heavy way. As the second clap of thunder hits, our 80 pound laboradoodle, Delta, jumps from his sleeping in the comfortable recliner to quickly make his way beside my bed on the hardwood floor. His fear and body shake the room. I am reminded as thunder booms and Delta shakes, I do the same with God. When the storms of life come my way, do I trust God fully?
Delta hates storms. I am assuming that it comes from the days when he lived as an outside dog through those storms so he knows how loud, wet and cold they can be.
I can easily relate to the way Delta feels about storms.
Honestly, I want things to be sunny and 70 degrees. If you read my post from a few years
ago then you will see what I mean. You know nothing to upset the preverbal apple cart of my life. When the change or storms come and do disrupt our so called perfect set up then we are living inside our own perfect storm.
In Luke 8:22-25
Jesus Calms the Storm 22 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. 23 As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. 24 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.25 “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.” NIV, Bible Gateway
Jesus and His disciples get into the boat to go to the other side of the lake. As they traveled across the water, a storm came. The disciples quickly woke Jesus worried they would drown. He got up and told the wind and waves to stop. Everything weather wise began to calm down and the disciples were in awe. Jesus then asked the disciples, “where is your faith?”. They were questioning who Jesus was that He had the power to calm the wind and the waves. These men had traveled and studied with Jesus. They had watched Him heal the sick, and had heard Him teach yet they still questioned His power to calm the storm. The disciples questioned could He or would He be able to make the storm they were facing stop.
We face the unexpected storms in our lives and are exactly like the disciples. Some of us call out to Jesus in a panic like He has been sleeping on the job of our lives. There is this assumption we have that God sometimes drops the ball and lets our lives go haywire.
Like in the storm above, God is sovereign. He controls our fate.
He calmed the waves the disciples faced, and He will calm the storms in our lives as well. We have to invite Him to be a part of the solution, and have to trust Him in faith that He will speak then all will be still.
The keep calm poster reminds me to Trust God in the Storms of Life.
God is with us in the boat the entire time. When the water is smooth or choppy, He is there and in control. Like Jesus said to His disciples, “Where is your faith?”
Do we trust Him in all circumstances? Can we let go and let Him be sovereign even when it seems like He is sleeping? Is it more likely that we panic and try to be in control?
PRAYER–
God, I confess that I have not trusted You in the storms of my life. I have given you the oars then taken them back so that I can be in control of the boat in the storm. Forgive me. I know you are God and you are sovereign. I will trust in you. Amen.