The Perfect Storm

When you lose your ultimate source of meaning and hope--it breaks your spirit.  The incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy your heart.  Do you feel that raging storm inside wanting to pull you in?  Disaster comes and the waters rise causing your faith to be replaced by fear; when you wake up and feel the storm.  Life isn't perfect and the evil one will test your faith.  You will feel like everything is falling apart, you will have doubts about your salvation.  You will be convicted of the sin in your life; you don't know if God is real in your life.

Somehow you have got to realize, Jesus is in the eye of the storm, breaking through the clouds reaching out for you.  Can't you hear the thunder of His voice?  He will be your shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm.  Just open the eyes of your heart and you will see the King and His beauty, for it is Him that will save you.

Have you hidden His word in your heart; do you seek His face and not just His hand?  You have to be careful less you drift away.  In confusion you will face the darkness feeling alone and you will feel fear.

This is where Jesus enters the perfect storm.  He called you out of death and into life; now through Christ you are reconciled by His crucifixion on the cross.  How great is His redeeming love.  He sank into that ultimate storm so that you would not fear any storm in your life.

You should see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone.

Fix your thoughts on Jesus and when you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.  You won't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.  It is one thing to believe the love of Jesus, and another to work it deep into your heart so it affects all you think, feel, and do.  You can enter into God's rest because Jesus went through the perfect storm so you wouldn't have to.  So find out what God's will for your life is, and do it!

"We will glorify the King of Kings, we will glorify the Lamb.  He is the great

I am".

Bid Daddy Weave   Jeremy Riddle   Isaiah 35, 36   Psalm 118, 119   Timothy Keller

David Crowder   Tocqueville 1830   Hebrews 2,3   Francesca Batastelli   MIKESCHAIR

Rich Mullins   Twila Paris