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Are you in the midst of hardship? Has someone sleighted you in some way? I know I have felt stuck in the moors of social and emotional turmoil.
It is human nature to experience anxiety or fear due to stress, whether internal or external. Even the disciples were afraid while Christ was with them in the Sea of Galilee. Take a moment to read Matthew 8:23-27.
Christ calms the storm. He doesn't remove the disciples from it, He doesn't completely dissolve it, He calms it.
So often, we ask God for help in our trials, to take away the storm. When we do this, we are asking Him to serve us, not Him. Rather, we should find Him in the storm. We need to ask Him what we should learn from the trial, how we can serve Him in this new season.
It is human nature to experience anxiety or fear due to stress, whether internal or external. Even the disciples were afraid while Christ was with them in the Sea of Galilee. Take a moment to read Matthew 8:23-27.
Christ calms the storm. He doesn't remove the disciples from it, He doesn't completely dissolve it, He calms it.
So often, we ask God for help in our trials, to take away the storm. When we do this, we are asking Him to serve us, not Him. Rather, we should find Him in the storm. We need to ask Him what we should learn from the trial, how we can serve Him in this new season.
"Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints for the sake of Christ; for when I am made weak, I am strong." - 2 Corinthians 12:10
Life's storms are reminders of our humanity, that we cannot do this alone. Dolly Parton said, "Storms make trees take deeper roots." How much stronger, then, will you be if your roots grow deeper into Christ Jesus?