Addendum: Monster Storm

It is October 29, 2012. The eastern portion of the United States is sitting in the path of an enormous ‘monster storm.’

The weather prognosticators are working overtime to analyze this massive weather system and predict its course and anticipate the damage it will do. Ordinary people are within their homes or places of work—listening to the increasing velocity of the wind and watching the pounding of the rain as it intensifies.

Some people are shaken to their core with fear, for they are fully aware of the devastation that has been wrought in the past by lesser storms. They know that this one is a rare phenomenon because when the parts of it converge, it will become one massive force of nature that has combined from three major storm systems. The winds are to attain a force of 75 mph.

Trees will be downed, houses and businesses will be damaged, lives will be lost. When it’s over, the sun will emerge again from the clouds that currently blanket the sky and no one will think of the ‘perfect storm’ that struck today—except those whose property is damaged, whose work is interrupted, whose electrical power remains out –and whose loved ones will not survive the onslaught.

But those of us who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ will remind ourselves that He causes “the rain to fall on the just and on the unjust,” (Matthew 5:45) and we will say as did Job when he faced the loss of all he valued, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him,” (Job 13:15). May YOU trust Him through every storm of your life. Jesus is faithful. He will get you through the torrent and into the sun again.