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Hey everyone!! I appologize for not being on here as often...or checking out anyone's blogs...I plan to do that just as soon as I have the time! Or I might just check out some on one day and some on another! Anyway...How is everyone!?! God has been teaching me a lot recently...so I guess I will just tell you what he has taught me!
Has anyone had storms? Not physical storms...like thunderstorms, and lightning, and rain...but spiritual storms? I know I have...and I know that sometimes in the midst of those storms God may seem miles away...when in fact he is right there...completly at peace, even when we are in complete turmoil. I just wanted to encourage some of you...maybe all of you...I don't know who you are ...but you do. In Mark 4:35-41 Jesus and His disciples are crossing over the lake...now this is not just any old lake...this lake I belive was pretty massive...almost like an ocean. Remember when Jesus fell asleep in the boat, and a big storm arose...so big that the boat began to take on water, and the disciples were afraid for their lives. Take note that Jesus was sleeping. So they woke up Jesus and asked him why he didn't care that they were in the midst of a strom and the boat was taking on water, and they were going to drown. And Jesus got up, and calmed the storm...not later, but immediatly. And then He asked them "Why are you afraid? Why is it that you have no faith?" Jesus' disciples had been with Him for all of his ministry. They knew what Jesus was capable of, and they knew that He was the Son of God, and that nothing was impossible with Him. Yet...they still had no faith, they still did not trust Him... Now in the beggining of this passage Jesus says "Let us cross over to the otehr side"...Now...since Jesus is all knowing...wouldn't He have said "let us see if we can cross to the other side safely" if He knew that they were going to drown? He knew that they were going to make it to the other side...He was completly at peace...I don't know about you but I am not able to sleep if I know that something is wrong...Yet Jesus slept. Guys and Gals...when we go thru some of life's storms...take hold on the promise that we are going to make it to the other side...even if it may seem that we will never make it thru...God is right there...at peace. We may take on water...baggage...and we may feel that we are going to drown in it...but with Jesus with us...we WILL make it thru...no matter how hard it seems...no matter how hopeless...God is there...WITH you, He will never leave you nor forsake you...He is right there. Are you going to trust Him? Where is your faith?? Do you have faith?? |
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