You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
-Isaiah 26:3
A couple of days ago, it was broadcasted across North Carolina and other states of a severe storm that involved possible tornadoes. The moment my phone went off with the alert of tornado warning in my area, I was taken back to when living in Oklahoma — serious tornado horns going off throughout the area.
Running for cover in my parents’ large walk-in closet, listening to my dad play guitar and calming us down. Although I was a little girl then, that same feeling of fear and looking for a place to hide came over me just a couple of days ago. Within seconds, the peace and assurance of safety and calmness in the storm overcame the fear. Ofcourse, if I heard the sound of a train coming I wasn’t going to be stupid…the dog and I were going to take cover. It was in the torrential rain, heavy wind, and hail moment that I felt the calm in the storm.
I looked out the window and saw God in the storm, He directs and guides it just like He does with the lives of those surrendered to Him.
This was my first time really experiencing a storm like this one alone. We face many “storms” in our lives, often we can feel we’re alone, but there is the hope and assurance that God gives — we are never alone!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
-Psalm 139:9-12
