Promises

 

Peace by Promises

Jesus can still the storm, but often He chooses instead, to go through the storm with us.

Compare the Bible records – Mark 6:39 to Acts 27

One is the power of His person stilling the storm.

2^nd  is the promise of His presence through the storm.

Most of us would rather the storm be stilled. But the will of God is not always so. If we are surrendered to God, He is often achieving something through us which involves storms e.g. Mark 14:34. Many Christians take the easy path by self interest being first, but for those walking with the Lord, a cross to bear, a storm to endure, a loss, a disappointment, a misunderstanding  is inevitable.

     So how can I have peace in the storm?

Many have promoted the idea that ‘that if I do the right thing then God will look after me and make life a success.’ (Deuteronomy 28).

I too thought so, until an experience sent me to the Bible where I discovered being faithful to the Lord, to truth, to righteousness would incur storms, trouble etc. Hebrews 11 records many godly, faithful people who endured storms.

         How did they not blame God? How did they maintain faith?  They accepted the promises of God as real, relevant and finally rewarding.

So today we are intended to endure tribulations, persecutions, weakness and death by clinging to the promises of out LORD, or more precisely , by clinging to the Sovereign LORD Himself!

Even to become “more than conquerors through Him that loved us” (Romans 8:37)

 

Act 27:26 Paul said in the middle of the storm “I believe God, that it will be just as He said”

2 Peter 1 reminds us of great and precious promises to enable us to live above the world of decadence and despair.

 

Media and medicine want us to “feel good”  - so we often judge God by how we feel . This is a deception. Paul put it better.  “though our outward man (body) perish, the inward man (spirit) is renewed day by day.

Sometimes I take mineral tablets to calm my mind (PPMP) and medicine to heal my wounds. But the greater essential is to spend time alone with the Lord , appropriating His promises, the promise of eternal life, and to rest in His abiding presence.

 

If we could see beyond today as God can see

If all the clouds should roll away, the shadows flee,

O’er present griefs we would not fret

Each sorrow we would soon forget

For many joys are waiting yet

For you , for me.

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If we could see, if we could know, we often say

But God in love a veil doth throw across our way

We cannot see what lies before

And so we cling to HIM the more

He leads us till this life is o’re

Him we will trust  and  obey.