Luke 6:47-48 - Torrents
I should have looked at the forecast.
I had left my swim suit and towel on the laundry line outside, and my wife said, "You may want to bring that in... it's starting to look like rain." That was an understatement. A violent wind blew in from nowhere. I raced around outside: grabbing things off the line, covering the grill, folding up a lawn chair. A broken, dead limb, wedged in our walnut tree, hovered over our neighbor's new fence. I prayed it wouldn't fall and damage something.
Just then I heard a bang and someone yell. Maybe something bigger than a branch had fallen! I ran back inside calling for my wife. She hadn't called. It was our neighbors, scrambling to get all their stuff to safety before it blew away. The rain was torrential. "Coming down in buckets" was more literal than metaphoric.
When storm winds swirl around us and we scramble for cover, what keep us steady and prevents us from being overwhelmed?
Jesus said, “Everyone who comes to Me, and hears My words, and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood rose, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built." Luke 6:47–48 (New American Standard Bible).
No one can tell you what will happen tomorrow let alone next year. Who knew what this year would be like? A steady foundation in upheaval is found in relationship to Jesus, understanding His truth, and then--most of all--obeying Him.
Father, let us come to Jesus, and hear what HE has to say. Give us obedient hearts for whatever He tells us to do next. Bless us with that as our deep and solid foundation. In Jesus' name, Amen.
When the storms of life are raging,
Stand by me;
When the storms of life are raging,
Stand by me;
When the world is tossing me
Like a ship upon the sea,
Thou Who rulest wind and water,
Stand by me.
Charles Albert Tindley, 1905
https://hymnary.org/text/when_the_storms_of_life_are_raging_stand
I had left my swim suit and towel on the laundry line outside, and my wife said, "You may want to bring that in... it's starting to look like rain." That was an understatement. A violent wind blew in from nowhere. I raced around outside: grabbing things off the line, covering the grill, folding up a lawn chair. A broken, dead limb, wedged in our walnut tree, hovered over our neighbor's new fence. I prayed it wouldn't fall and damage something.
Just then I heard a bang and someone yell. Maybe something bigger than a branch had fallen! I ran back inside calling for my wife. She hadn't called. It was our neighbors, scrambling to get all their stuff to safety before it blew away. The rain was torrential. "Coming down in buckets" was more literal than metaphoric.
When storm winds swirl around us and we scramble for cover, what keep us steady and prevents us from being overwhelmed?
Jesus said, “Everyone who comes to Me, and hears My words, and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood rose, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built." Luke 6:47–48 (New American Standard Bible).
No one can tell you what will happen tomorrow let alone next year. Who knew what this year would be like? A steady foundation in upheaval is found in relationship to Jesus, understanding His truth, and then--most of all--obeying Him.
Father, let us come to Jesus, and hear what HE has to say. Give us obedient hearts for whatever He tells us to do next. Bless us with that as our deep and solid foundation. In Jesus' name, Amen.
When the storms of life are raging,
Stand by me;
When the storms of life are raging,
Stand by me;
When the world is tossing me
Like a ship upon the sea,
Thou Who rulest wind and water,
Stand by me.
Charles Albert Tindley, 1905
https://hymnary.org/text/when_the_storms_of_life_are_raging_stand
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