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Through Winds and Waves

And he said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.  -Matthew 8:26 Why indeed are you afraid, self? Fear enters in when you focus on the waves and not on the Savior who beckons you to Him out of the comfort of your boat. Fear comes when you doubt the Hand that holds you. Fear comes when you fix your gaze on the troubles that assail you instead of the grace and the Author of that grace that sustains you. When you trust your own planning more than you trust the Divine Orchestrator of everything from eternity past, and when things don’t go your way, you begin to dread and fear. When you rely on your ability to understand and make sense of things and to know what to do, you begin to fear. Because not everything in this world will make sense; you can’t deduce exactly what to do in every single situation you are placed in. You’re afraid because your faith is little. Y

Kiss the Rod

He whom the Lord loves, He disciplines. If you experience correction in your walk, rejoice. Not everyone is NOT left to their own destructive paths and ways. You hear the voice of God that reproves. Other have only silence. Every christian walking in his earthly journey still has a lot of learning and unlearning to do. If you see God’s hands coming down to you, and with great might, find comfort in this: that He makes your crooked ways straight. His hands are not to condemn you, but to correct you. So HATE your sin, Christian. Know that each crooked act and way is an offense against the Almighty God. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Mortify your sins; do not give any room for them, not even their shadow. Flee from them and their temptations. Discipline yourself, beat your body black and blue, lest you become disqualified and you fail to meet the test. Strip off your sinful and crooked ways, lest you find yourself unfit for the Kingdom. But also, learn to kiss the waves that

A God So Near

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon Him?                                                               Deuteronomy 4:7 The LORD has chosen for Himself a people of His own. As a type and as a shadow of the full fruition, He redeemed Israel and brought them out of the land of slavery, out of Egypt. He has called them to be His own and revealed to them His name, the Name above all names, for them to call upon Him and be heard by Him. He chose them and took them for His own and had placed them above every nation. He had made Himself near to Israel. And yet this was but a type and a shadow. The church as the LORD’s true people have been called out of—made holy unto the LORD—a far greater, much more enslaving bondage. We have been delivered from an oppressor that holds every human being captive and imprisoned: sin. And while the Jews cried out for help when the Egyptians oppressed them, we loved our cha