Cry Out in a Crisisনমুনা

Today's reading points to the defining moment of this story. The passage says: He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. The howling winds and the deafening roar of the sea were silenced. Jesus muzzled those furious sounds in a moment. He demonstrated His power over all creation. No matter how chaotic your crisis may seem, no matter how impossible, God is not overpowered by the storm. Revelation 1:8  declares: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” He is all-powerful. He is the Beginning and the End. In our reading of the Psalms today we learn that He determines the number of stars and calls them by name. It’s impossible to know how many stars exist, but astronomers estimate that in our Milky Way galaxy alone, there are about 300 billion. And, God’s Word says that He calls them by name. Can you begin to imagine that? We look at the wind and the waves and we think logically that there’s no way out of the storm. But God is not limited by logic or the natural or by what we define as possible. He is still the mountain-moving, miracle-working God who can still the storm and breathe His peace into our hearts. We can call out to God in a crisis because He is not overpowered by the storm.