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Your Great Rescue  

Life is like an ocean. It’s full of twists and turns, currents pulling us in different directions, and waves that seem to crash over us out of nowhere. 

For some, the storm comes because of circumstances around them that are completely out of their control, and they struggle to stay afloat in all that is being thrown at them. Then there are the internal storms, that no one else sees, and we have an element of control in them, as to how we respond, and how we control our emotions. 

Sometimes we’re ready and waiting for the waves. We know we’re about to walk through a storm, we we’re prepared with our coats, umbrellas and boots, ready to protect ourselves from any eventuality. Other times we’re happily enjoying a quiet, peaceful picnic for the soul, then, in an instant, we are being pounded with the lashing rain of a storm that arrived with no warning. We aren’t ready, we’re stuck outside in summer clothes getting soaked to the bone! 

What if God has a plan in the suddenness of the storm? What if he meant to catch you unaware? What if that picnic wasn’t the food He wants your soul to be nourished by? What if He wants you to stop fighting the tides, and give all control over to Him and His currents? 

God knows that He gets a lot less done in us when we’re ready and prepared to deal with all the things that are going ‘wrong’ around us. Before we take a moment to look up, or consider who might be the author of the storm, we charge ahead and ‘fix’ His handiwork. 

It it in His mercy that He saves us from ourselves, from our incessant need to be in control and to find the easy way out. 

In Matthew and Mark we read about Yeshua calming the storm. We seem to have an easier time believing that He could control the wind and waves, than the circumstances in our lives. Yeshua had a plan in that boat. He wanted his disciples to trust Him. He wanted them to learn that He was in control, that they didn’t need to fear the waves because He was with them. They learned this lesson in the boat, in the storm. They didn’t learn it from afar, watching through binoculars. 

Sometimes we need to flip our thinking on its head, rather than fighting the storms, avoiding the deserts, patching ourselves up, and fixing the cracks. 

We need to stop fighting. 

If we spend our life fighting against every method that God may use to make us more like Him, then the trials and storms will only intensify - He doesn’t give up on us! 

He has wonderful plans for your partnership with Him, and as long as we profess trust and commitment to Him, He will draw us to Himself by any means necessary. 

What if, the great storm that you may be in, is in fact, His great rescue plan?