Beauty in the storm!

Sitting here on my deck, watching a storm roll in across the prairie skies!! It’s beautiful. Oh wait, it’s a storm, but it’s beautiful. Just like the storms of life. The ones that press us in to knowing the heart of God better. The ones that drive us into His Word of truth, and into prayer. The storms that remind us, God is still good and God is still love. The ones that teach us to say with Job, “Though He slay me, YET will I TRUST HIM!!” (Job 13:15) The storms that teach us to say with Habakkuk, “Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls--YET I will REJOICE in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” (3:17, 18) “Even so Father, for so it seemed GOOD in Your sight!” (Matthew 11:26)




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