Like A River Flows

My soul, bless the Lord, and do not forget all His benefits. He forgives all your iniquity; He heals all your diseases. He redeems your life from the Pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.  Psalms 103:2-4 CSB

Yes Lord thanks for the reminder! if we turn our thoughts to seeking Jesus first with  prayer, thanking God sincerely for the gift of communion with Him, peacefully walking forward through the day confident in God, resting in His character, trusting in His power, and believing in His Word we will instead be overcome with hope and Holy Spirit’s presence that washes away worry and fear. 

We can learn to find that same calm by faith amidst the waves of sin and the storms of emotion within our hearts - It may seem impossible, but there is hope, and there is comfort to be found, my friends know that we are not alone and that anything we are facing, good or bad, is not any surprise to God.  When we have given our lives to Jesus as our risen saviour He is with us in every tragedy and every celebration!  Because He loves His people! 

Remember that with Christ nothing is impossible. He is able. When we understand that we are weak and learn how to look to Christ and cling to Him, we will begin to experience Christ as our calm.

Matthew 8:23-26 NASB When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep. And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing!” He *said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.

Thoughts and feelings will come like waves on the sea and seek to capsize us. When these thoughts and feelings flood our hearts and minds like water into a boat, we are barely able to keep our eyes on Jesus. 

On our own strength we will be afraid to face a new day troubled with thoughts and feelings like a strange sense that there is a sea monster, circling around and waiting for a moment to emerge from the depths and ruin our day. Or we struggle with the idea that even having anxious feelings or thoughts means that we are failing or that we are a failure! But take heart!  

Jesus teaches that we will have trouble in this world. Each day will have trouble enough of its own. Not only will the world bring us trouble, but we have trouble residing within because even when we believe Jesus Christ and accepted Him as our Lord and Savior, sinful nature remains - So we don't have to go far to find trouble. Trouble is within us and around us.  

I know by experience that this is enough to make anyone anxious! Is there any hope?!  

YES! Yes! If you are in Christ, He is in you and you are in Him. Because He lives inside of you, there can be calm within.

That is the truth, The truth of God and His Word is not only our ANCHOR in the storm. In Christ we can actually BE THE CALM in the storm.