I wanted to revisit yesterday’s post on the power of the ocean tide and currents. See the picture below from one day to the next. This amazing change in weather from one day to the next of the calm seas to raging winds and storms is a reflection of how our lives can change so quickly. The storms and our weather are very much like the storms of our lives. We have to be grounded in our faith to ride these storms out to see the other side.
Sometimes the storms in our lives appear without a blaring horn. Jesus was in the boat with his disciples sleeping when without any type of warning, a storm came and the the waves swept over the their boat.
The disciples were used to storms on the Sea of Galilee and the water would generate significant waves. However, this storm must have been a particularly serious one because the disciples woke up Jesus and said, ‘We’re going to drown!’
In these times, with the storms, it is natural to panic. Sometimes it appears that Jesus is ‘sleeping.’ He does not appear to be doing anything about our problems. Thankfully, we can all cry out, as they did, ‘Lord, save us!’
Don’t be afraid to call upon our Lord.
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