When we decided to build our home, and set about choosing a site, we carefully considered many things: the cost of bringing water, gas, telephone, electricity here; and the fact that we’d have to build our own road. However, we loved the privacy and the view, so we began…You’d have thought that we might have noticed the wind.
Apparently not.
Although we spent many days out here at the end of the road imagining, planning, preparing, not once do I remember discussing (or even noticing) the wind.
But it hasn’t stopped blowing since we moved in…
The delphinium will have to put down deeper roots…
And I may need to grow larger feet…
The other day I looked out and saw this niger seed sock waving around in reckless abandon…(the picture doesn’t really show how strong the wind was. At times, it was horizontal!) …but the finches seemed oblivious to the hurricane in their midst.
I marvel at their trust.
Pretty sure I would have taken cover in that blast, but they just kept about their business as if all was well.
And, all was well in the greater scheme of things.
This morning I read Luke 8 about Jesus calming the storm. Verse 24 says, “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.
Very often, I want Jesus to calm storms in my life. Make it all better – or make it go away…and sometimes He does…but sometimes, instead of the storm (situation) changing, He calms my internal storms…gives me a peace inside and the belief that in His presence I can weather the storm on the outside.
The study notes for Luke 8:25 in my Bible say this: “When caught in the storms of life, it is easy to think that God has lost control and that we’re at the mercy of the winds of fate. In reality, God is sovereign. He controls the history of the world as well as our personal destinies. Just as Jesus calmed the waves, he can calm whatever storms you may face.” (Life Application Study Bible NIV, Zondervan)
When we trust in this same Jesus, we can ride out life’s storms, just as calmly as those finches.
Thank you, Lord, for peace in the midst of storm.
