Focus: Success in the Storms of Life
By Nancy Predaina, IOC
Scripture Reference:
“Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper” (Psalm 107:28–29a).
“But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold” (Job 23:10).
Devotional:
None of us like storms (difficulties) to come into our lives. The human tendency is to escape—or at least to complain a lot.
We can learn an important lesson from the eagle. When a storm comes, the eagle turns and faces it so that the wind will not ruffle his feathers (there’s another lesson in that). As the wind pours over his body, it actually makes his feathers shine. When he comes out of the storm, he is bright and polished by the force of the wind; he comes “forth as gold.” An “old-time” Nazarene preacher, Bud Robinson, said: “If your heart is fixed, when the devil brings out a cyclone of abuse, you may be peeled and scaled and blistered, but you will split the storm wide open and get up in the sky, sit down on the rainbow of God’s promise, and shout yourself to sleep in the teeth of the devil.” With God’s help, we can survive the storms.
Prayer Points:
* Pray that we will burst through the storm of difficulties surrounding the completion of the Africa Mercy.
* Pray that, with God’s help, we will emerge victoriously through the problems in our lives.
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