In This Storm

I don’t know who put this video together, but they did an excellent job. This has been one of my favorite songs for some time. It really speaks to me. We all have storms in life, times when things seem to be going terribly wrong. Not only can we not seem to get out of those times, we can’t see any end in sight. Reason fails us…our strength wanes. The lightning illuminates just enough to make things look worse than they really are, and the thunder mocks us and our inabilities. We are at the mercy of the wind and waves, or so it seems.

As with the apostles, caught in a storm on the Sea of Galilee, and the Master was asleep. They panicked, they fretted, they did everything in their power to save the boat and their lives with it. Finally, when they had lost all hope, they called on the Master in their darkest hour. I can almost hear Him now: ”O ye of little faith…did you honestly think I would let you come to harm? If only you had come to me first, you could have been spared from all of this worry and heartache.”

But that is the problem with us humans: we think we can do everything ourselves, or at least that we should be able to. Not until all seems lost do we go to the only One who can give us the strength, the grace to come through our storms. The sovereign God is in control. We have to trust that there is a purpose for the storms of our lives, that God is helping us to grow through them. Nothing can grow without the rain…no blade of steel can be made without first going through the fire. We are to praise Him in the storms of this life because it is through the rain that we grow…it is through the fires that we become strong.