By Pastor Mario D. Ford
Brothers and sisters, storms often serve as metaphors for challenges, circumstances, and conditions brought on by life.
A google search of the word “storm” defines it in part as “a violent disturbance in the atmosphere”.
Perhaps you would agree with me that life has a way of bringing violent disturbances in our home, on our jobs, within our families, with our finances, and even in our spirits.
Life reminds us in the click of a second calm can change to calamity; — you can be on the mountain one moment and in the valley the next, you can go to bed on top of the world and wake up with the world on top of you!
Nevertheless, by God’s grace, we can survive the storm.
Mark 4: 35-41 records the disciples living this reality.
Jesus and his disciples go on a journey from one side of the Galilean Sea to the other side when a storm arises.
They made it by holding to the promise of God; if you read the aforementioned passage, you will discover Jesus says, “Let us cross over to the other side.”
Jesus didn’t say let us die in the midst of the sea, He didn’t say let us drown, or let us turn over in the sea; He said, “Let us cross over to the other side.”
The Lord never said there wouldn’t be hardship, heartache, and hurt; He didn’t say there wouldn’t be troubles, trials and tribulation; He didn’t say there wouldn’t be pain, problems and predicaments— He said let us go to the other side and if God said it, it will come to past.
Listen, I don’t have a lot of money but I have a promise.
I don’t live in a new house but I have a promise.
There are times, you don’t know about, when I cry myself to sleep but I have a promise.
Wherefore, even though the storm is raging in our life, we need to stand on the promises of God.