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HE’S IN THE STILLNESS AND THE STORM

On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Psalms 63:6

Joni Eareckson Tada writes: ‘After my diving injury, I lay still for three months waiting to be moved from intensive care into a regular hospital room. After more months of lying still, I was moved to rehab, where I stayed in my wheelchair for hours outside the physical therapy department, waiting to go in. My manufactured stillness would madden me as I sat waiting for friends or family to come visit. ‘But time and the study of God’s Word have a way of changing us. Now my bed is an altar of praise, the one spot on the harried planet where I always meet God. As soon as I see the covers pulled back, my mind responds, ‘It’s time to be still and know more about God; time to pray.’ When you find yourself in forced stillness, instead of fidgeting and fuming, practice stillness before God. You can be still and know that He is God - and you don’t have to break your neck to find out! But God is also in the storm. Obeying Him doesn’t exempt you from hard times. It was Jesus who commanded the disciples to go across Lake Galilee that night. But when they stepped out of the boat the next morning, they knew much more about Him than they did the night before. Things like: (a) storms don’t hide Him, they reveal Him (b) the circumstances that threaten you are already under His feet (c) it’s fine to enjoy the good times, but often you’ll learn more in the bad ones.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me praise you in the storms of life knowing that when I keep my eyes fixed on you I will always come out on dry ground (or be able to walk on the water with your hand). In Jesus’ Name, Amen