Special to ASSIST News Service
SWARTZ CREEK MI (ANS) -- How can you best tell God how big your storm is today? Is there a way we can make Him understand? Or… does the storm need to hear about your God?
Storms of life are to be expected, and in a way are even promised by God. The rain falls on the just and unjust. This is –- in God’s providence -– entirely compatible with the verse that “all things work for good... for those who love God.”
Sometimes we feel like “taking on” that storm, letting the rain drops sting our faces. Sometimes we pray for an umbrella. Sometimes we plead for a mighty fortress, for we wrestle not just against men and princes, but against powers of the air, for which storms are metaphors.
Yet we need to remind ourselves that as horrible as a storm can seem, God is above all these things. Sometimes behind those things, like the sunshine behind the storm clouds. And more than that -– much more! a great comfort! -– we know the Master of the wind and the Maker of the rain. He can calm a storm, make the sun shine again.
Yet we need to remind ourselves that as horrible as a storm can seem, God is above all these things. Sometimes behind those things, like the sunshine behind the storm clouds. And more than that -– much more! a great comfort! -– we know the Master of the wind and the Maker of the rain. He can calm a storm, make the sun shine again.
You know the Master of the wind. And He knows you.
“There’s many a true word spoken in jest,” and a good friend, Mike Atkinson, proves it jest about every day in a site everyone should visit and subscribe to, “Mikey’s Funnies.” Recently amidst the wise humor and humorous wisdom was some straight-out wisdom that puts the truth of this in a simple and direct fashion. Brilliant:
“Stop telling God how big your storm is. Tell the storm how big your God is.”
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The words “Master of the Wind” above are the chorus lines of the great Gospel song by the Hemphills and emotionally sung here by daughter Candy Hemphill Christmas. And the site for the terrific “Mikey’s Funnies” is www.mikeysfunnies.com -- be sure to catch the ministry Mike supports, too, the Marine Recruit Letter-Writing Campaign.
Click: The Master of the Storm
| Rick Marschall is the author of 65 books and hundreds of magazine articles in many fields, from popular culture (Bostonia Magazine called him “perhaps America’s foremost authority on popular culture”) to history and criticism; country music, television history, biography and children’s books. He is a former political cartoonist, editor of Marvel Comics, and writer for Disney comics. For 10 years he has been active in the Christian field, writing devotionals; co-author of The Secret Revealed with Dr Jim Garlow. His biography of Johann Sebastian Bach for the “Christian Encounters” series (Thomas Nelson) was released in April, 2011. His history of cartoon Advertising, Drawing Power, will be published in July 2011 by the Marschall Books imprint of fantagraphics Books. In October his major biography of Theodore Roosevelt, BULLY!, will be publ;ished by Regnery History of Washington DC. He is currently working on a One-Year CDevotional for Tyndale House; and edits the the reissue of Harper's Weekly -- the Civil War Years for NOVOink e-books. Rick is a former Director of Product Development for Youth Specialties. He is recipient of the 2008 “Christian Writer of the Year” award from the Greater Philadelphia Writer’s Conference, and produces a weekly e-mail devotional, “Monday Morning Music Ministry.” His e-mail address is: RickMarschall@gmail.com. |  |
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