Mark 4:37-40 "But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, "Teacher, don't you carte that we're going to drown?" When Jesus woke up, he rebukes the wind and said to the waves, "Silence! Be still!" Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
Often I find myself feeling like I am drowning in my own anxiety and sometimes depression. Sometimes it feels overwhelming as if it will wash over over like waves of the ocean. Then I, like the disciples, cry out to God asking does He not care that I am drowning, that I am falling apart. Doesn't He care that I am drowning in everything. Often he responds the same why He did with the disciples "Why are you afraid, do you still have no faith?" Despite knowing God will take care of everything and I just need to trust Him, despite seeing His glory in action, I still get afraid. I still cry out to Him and beg Him to rescue me from this heartache and pain.
Its always hard to understand why God is bringing you through a storm when you are going through it. But after the storm, when you are looking at the rainbow you can see what His plan was, and you say "Oh...okay." We never know what God has planned for us, but we need to have faith that His will, will be done. We need to look at things and see the lessons God may be trying to teach us, look to find the rainbow among the storm, the calm among the waves. That is part of walking Bravely on his path, accepting the hardships of life and seeing the good that could come from it...
