The video above will speak a comforting word to your anger over the trial you are experiencing.
Maybe you, like me, have been really mad at God for the furious storm that he let you experience.
Maybe, I’m finding, when we’re mad at God, it’s because we have such a strong belief in the power of God that he could indeed calm the winds and the waves.
Maybe you’re mad because in this storm, he didn’t.
He didn’t for me. He did not.
Maybe I’m coming to realize that if I really believe that God is great enough to calm any storm and change any circumstance, stop anything, to raise the dead, then he’s probably great enough to have some purposes going on that I simply do not understand. And that’s a hard, flat statement.
And sometimes I find the very best I can do is just to look at Jesus and say, “What man is this?” (Matthew 8:27).
Not who can just calm the winds and the waves (Matthew 8:23-27), but who loves me and gave himself for me that I might be forgiven of my sins and have new life (Galatians 2:20).
“What man is this?” (Matthew 8:27).
He is the Lord of all, who has all dominion and loves you perfectly, whose ways are higher than our ways, and who’s great enough to have purposes we will never understand. I find that I can’t have it both ways.
I want God to be great enough that he could fix anything, but not so great that I can’t understand something.
Following Jesus isn’t safe, but it’s good. Because he’s good.
He’s the king.
Amen?