Seeing God in the Storm

Do you sometimes wonder where God is?  Ever wonder why would God be concerned with little old me?  Sometimes doubt God cares?  We all have had feelings like these.  I doubt there is one among us who has never doubted God at some level, especially during the storms and tears of life.

 I think the answer lies within US, not God.  You see it is ok with God for us to hurt, maybe even to doubt, not that he likes it, because God never wants His Children to hurt.  The problem is that sometimes we can’t see God through the storm, and yes even the tears of our life.  How can we miss Him?  Psalm 42 has meant a lot to me during these times.  Would you share a few minutes with me maybe crying, maybe not, but always looking for God through the tears?

As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God.  When can I go and stand before him? Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?” (Psalm 42:1-3) 

Have you been there?  People asking, where is your God now, look at you?  You are a mess.  I know we all have been there.  Have you too been that deer so thirsty for God, but not able to see Him for the tears. So what do we do?  Let’s look now to Verses 5-8 for our answer.

Why am I discouraged?  Why is my heart so sad?  I will put my hope in God!  I will praise him again— my Savior and my God!  Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you— even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan,     from the land of Mount Mizar.  I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me. But each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life.

We sometimes loose hope in God … we sometimes doubt, and God expects that.  What we need to remember is the God we knew before the storm, before the tears.  That’s the God that will comfort and protect us fragile deer during the times we can’t see God for the tears.  Let’s pray to God through the night and storms of our life.  He is there and He is listening.

God Bless!