God & Hurricanes

     Hurricanes -- what an awesome demonstration of power!  What a frightening experience when you are in the middle of one!  Does God know what He's doing when He allows these in our lives?

     Given the significance of all the headlines about the hurricane that is branching along the East Coast of North America, this was a beautiful excerpt from Streams in the Desert today.  

It is very easy for us to speak and theorize about faith, but God often casts us into crucibles to try our gold, and to separate it from the dross and alloy. Oh, happy are we if the hurricanes that ripple life's unquiet sea have the effect of making Jesus more precious. Better the storm with Christ than smooth waters without Him.

What if God could not manage to ripen your life without suffering?


      May you find God in the midst of whatever storms life has brought -- He is there in every moment!

"Then the Lord spoke to
Job out of the storm."

Job 40:6

Try to find a moment to take in this amazing song by Steve Curtis Chapman...
God is God
(click on the words for the link)