The world is in a chaotic state. It seems there are so many special, even tragic, needs. Men and women are fighting to stay afloat mentally, physically and financially. Dismiss the thought that the believer in Christ is in his or her own little bubble, shielded from the “beginning of sorrows” that is rising like a flood all over the earth. There are many Christians who need exceptional help to combat their exceptional tests of faith and the words “special” and “exceptional” have lately become the norm for the child of God.
I have intimated that the believer is not shielded from the storms raging all around us – but that is only partially correct. We Christians experience the same violent churning of the seas, but in the midst of it all (this is true only for those who have Jesus in the same boat with them) they can cry out to the Master who seemed not to care.
If He cared, we reason, why hasn’t He done something about our situation? But, at our cry Jesus bestirs Himself and commands the winds and the waves, “Peace, be still!” And they no longer can harm us.
Note that I did not say they no longer raged and dashed us furiously: they could no longer harm us. What had seemed like a certain death in the roiling waters, can now bring us only good. We shall not die, but live.
It is uncertain to me whether the devil does it or my own carnal nature (which is dead only by faith, not literally), but there have been times when I was rocked furiously within my mind and I would cry frantically for help and it seemed there would be no help forthcoming. But I want to advise you who have not been through this yet: your help is on the way. Your faith has to be tried first and the heat must be applied to your life so that God can make you what He wants you to be.
You will not die; you will live to yet praise God and to say in awe, “It was not me; it was the Spirit of God within me!”
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