Patience is a virtue. Trying to get out of town when storms are popping up around you can make things hairy. I have been on a three hour journey to start a three and a half hour flight and before, during, and after a pretty major thunder storm. This storm has shut down the airport, delayed inbound flights, diverting flights to another airport and caused a chaotic mess with the passengers and the airlines. This has people to be “not where they want to be” with cancelled flights and airplanes and crews to be scattered around the country and not where they want to be.
Doesn’t this sound like the storms in life? When we face a “storm” are we where we want to be and everything is in its proper place? NOT! Do these life-storms get us out of kelter? Do we protray our “best image” when we are in the eye of the storm?
So, what do we do? Patience is a virtue given you have virtually no control over the situation. Breathe and go with the flow, be pleased when the horizon breaks with sunshine that was totally hidden from the storm or the beautiful colors of the distant sunset that seem to appear at the end of the storm.
Isn’t this really normal in the days that we are living in? We are pulled to and fro between our daily commitments and somewhere we would like to be (think normal if you can remember what normal is) but seem to be separated between the two by a daily storm. Hear the rumbling thunder, see the lightning strikes, feel the high humidity in the air? Face it, this is probably more normal in your life right now.
Seek God and keep his commandments. Our really only fall back is to seek God. In calamities, in dealing with those that seek to see us fail, and in trying to follow God, we must seek Him.
Proverbs 14:32–When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God. Hebrews 11:6–And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Think about the lyrics to “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God”
Seek ye first the kingdom of God. And His righteousness; And all these things shall be added unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!
Ask, and it shall be given unto you; Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!
Man shall not live by bread alone, But by every word. That proceeds out from the mouth of God.
Hallelu, Hallelujah!
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