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The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and the raging waves. The storm stopped and all was calm! Luke 8:24-25

Have you ever thought why it was that Jesus didn’t just tell the wind to be silent? Instead he told the waves to cease also. Maybe it seems a small detail and in many respects that’s the point. The cause of the storm was the wind, by commanding the storm to stop, would have brought the stormy sea to a halt, but not immediately . The wind may have stopped blowing but the seas would have continued raging until things settled.

When you toss a pebble into a mill pool, the ripples continue for sometime after the stone has entered the water.

The disciples were distressed and terrified, they were beyond what they could handle. This must have been some storm, on the whole these disciples were fishermen they were used to storms, but this one had beaten them and the Lord knew it. To stop the cause was one thing, but to stop the effect meant immediate peace and calm.

Praise God that we have a God of immense compassion who can solve the cause of our problems as well as the effects. If Noah had been left on the Arc and God had stopped the rain only , Noah would still be floating around on one gigantic puddle. Put the Lord made plans to remove the effect, the water from the earth.

I find this really exciting and uplifting. God really cares how we feel and when we reach our breaking point and often well before, our heavenly Father, is moving heaven and earth to not just stop the disaster but put our lives back together as quickly as he can.

This is most true of our greatest cause and effect; Sin . When we become a believer he hasn’t just taken the sin out of our lives and forgiven our sins, that in itself is awesome. But he is working in us to remove, the guilt and pain, heartache and anguish that sin has caused in our lives.

Sometimes we only see the big miracles in our lives, when often the greatest can be the small ones, because these are the ones that we can see in this lifetime, where the bigger one we will not see until we reach our home in glory.

Labels: Calm, Cause, Compassion, Effect

posted by Andy Hodson - Thursday, 10 July 2008, 23:18
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