seas and storms

Been praying a lot about this season of my life. Wondering, pondering the steps I've taken in certain directions past and present. The learnings, the successes and the failures. What is the posture I've carried thru it all of seeking Christ no matter the situation or cost? or has perceptive killed my faith in God's goodness? 

Today I was reading in Mark 4 where Jesus and the Disciples set sail together and a storm came upon them.

"On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”    [Mark 4:35-41 ESV]

From what I read it was a really big storm and a very stressful situation. I surely would be just as concerned and uncomfortable as the disciples were. That last verse 41 where the humanity of Jesus is questioned is completely relatable to me. I can't even imagine the power of that moment where Jesus responds in action with calming the storm as the disciples had asked. The disciples get to see in real time God in the flesh save them for a purpose. 

And all in just 6 verses.

I often remind myself in my own everyday life where things aren't the way I had hoped, or when a storm arises that causes me stress, or when I start to get frustrated that things aren't going my way....that the simple truth is 

Jesus sees me, He knows me, He is for me & is always purposed in what He does and has planned.

Usually it still doesn't fix whatever is troubling me immediately or make me just smile and move on in a better personhood...but it does push me to press into Christ in the circumstance and know that He is good, always good. And it often causes me to crave His presence more and be expectant on Him to move whatever the weather.

I can't imagine life without the hope of Christ that purposes the storms and chaos of this life. Doesn't make it easy...but He makes it eternally worth it. 

Just think what He could do in 6 verses of your life...or even less.