I have a very special word of encouragement today for you brothers and sisters in the Lord. May be you are passing into a storm, or you are in a storm, or you are coming out of a storm. It might be a physical storm of bad health, financial disaster, divorce, death of a beloved one, loss of a job/home, etc… or it might be the storm of mental distress, emotional loss, spiritual crisis, when the one you depend on walks out of your life. How sad for those who do have God to turn to!!!
Remember, He made the spider able to drop anywhere and to spin its own path as it goes. Is He not able to spin a path for you through every black, perplexity and depression? His paths are in the unexpected places Psalms 91. We also read, “God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble. …Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her and that right early.” (Psalms 46: 1, 3-5)
Out of a terrible and frightening ‘storm’ (physical or spiritual) God’s help gushes forth, like the stream that makes glad. God’s power is always with us but sometimes in the midst of a storm we don’t see it right away. That is why God admonishes us to “Be still and know…” The world might run around in a frenzy looking for the solution, but we can rest safely in the assurance that if we are close to God He is going to be close to us. Next we read, “The heathen rage, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The Lord of hosts is WITH us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. (vs 6-7)
God promises in this Psalm; refuge, strength, help, to be with us, to be stronger than any foe, and to be exalted over the heathen. What more could we want?
When we are in a storm don’t think for one second that God is in heaven ‘wringing His hands’ over our situation. He is in perfect control. He just asks us to ‘be still’ and let Him be who He is … our loving, caring and protecting God. When He speaks a word nothing else matters because He created life and order from that word Psalms 33:6. Therefore, where are you at in your walking with the LORD?
Timothy