Before the Storm

Instead of the alarm clock, I was jolted out of bed by a phone call. The message pulled the rug out from under me: My mother was on her way to the hospital!

I jumped out of bed and rushed after the ambulance—literally, because I was still able to intercept it on the highway. How I would have loved to have been there for my mother! 

When we arrived at the hospital, a barrier separated us. A few days passed before we were allowed to see her again, to find out how bad her illness really was. The worry, the fear, sleepless nights, all those were very, very real. 

But just as real was this peace that God promises: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you…” (John 14:27 NIV). How many times I would look at my father and he would say, "I don't understand it myself, but I just have peace, despite everything."

A few days later, after my mother was finally back home, I came across this passage from the Bible and understood: 

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.” (Matthew 7:24-25 NIV)

We had decided BEFORE this storm to listen to God's Word, that is, to read His Word and live by it. Because of this, our hearts were full of the truth that God is our healer, our peace, indeed our friend who can perform miracles! 

If you are safe with God before the storm, He will take care of you during the storm!

That is the most precious knowledge in such moments, that Jesus will take care of you! It didn't do any good to race after the ambulance, because Jesus was in the ambulance the whole time.

friend, it also doesn't help to worry about your tomorrow, because Jesus is already there! Are you trusting Him today, before you meet tomorrow’s problems? 

You are a miracle!