Jonah chapter 1 verse 10-16...
10 This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.)
11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”
12 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”
13 Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. 14 Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you,Lord, have done as you pleased.” 15 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. 16 At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.
Ever been in a threatening situation where you actually are not sure if you will live? How about financially speaking? Ever thought, "If this calamity happens..I'm going to sink...I'll lose everything important?" Well, then you were probably terrified, petrified and scared of being electrified!! I love the way the word of the Lord explains the sea....Jonah 1:11 reads, "The sea was getting rougher and rougher..." meaning that the sea had been getting to a rough point..and then the waters became rougher!! Any of you out there that are Bible scholars know that the Bible is like one big understatement of detail...Therefore, if a given text actually takes the time to use a comparative or to repeat itself, than those events being described are big, okay? Take a moment to get on board that ship...smell the salts and the breeze! Feel the wooden contours of the railing and soak in the massive difference between the size of the vast ocean and your sailboat! Now, using your mind's eye...envision the sky growing dark and the ocean waves beginning to crash..dashing any security that you have ...your life is getting smaller and smaller with each wave....!!! The only option is to seek something bigger than the ocean to calm it all down, right? The Lord is always bigger than our problems....The Lord is the calm to every sea....So, perhaps we would do better on our knees before the storm, talking to the Lord of the sea and the storm...seeking the God of the wind and the waves?
Principle..When it's the Lord who we daily fear, we also to Him draw near....and When to Him we draw near...there is less and less for us to fear!!
When it takes calamity to make us look up..we have not been daily asking Him to fill our cup!
Let's fill our cup daily with His truth and directions so that our life is safely hidden in His...not out there and precariously hanging by a thread...hoping that the ocean will behave or the flight will not crash....Since the wind obeys the lord...shouldn't we simply obey? Don't be a last minute Christian!! Be a warrior, daily ready to recieve your orders and your armour of protection!! Walking on water means letting God's power go ahead of you in the storm...not waiting for the storm to ask for God's power...!!
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