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Message No. 0807 | Twitter @GodandUs | www.wisdom-speaks.ca

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Whenever I watch videos of weather-related storms, I am always amazed about the sheer power of wind and water. Call it hurricane, windstorm, cyclone or typhoon, watching people’s homes, city structures, electricity poles and wires, trees and other powerful objects being destroyed in a matter of minutes is difficult to absorb. In December 2004, an earthquake in the belly of the ocean triggered a tsunami in Asia, and the world was not the same thereafter. The properties that were destroyed, and more importantly, the lives that were lost, were too many for any sane person to watch and smile.

 

Now, it is one thing to watch these storms by video, and it is another thing to be in them. Those who survive the storms are usually not the same thereafter. Yet, in Mark chapter 4, the Bible says that Jesus was in one such storm where the boat was tossed up and down like a rollercoaster, and water was gushing into the boat and threatening to sink it, a tsunami-like experience by description, and He was at the back of the boat, sleeping. In life, there are levels of surprises. One level is, wow, that’s surprising, and the other is, what! That’s shocking! The disciples of Jesus were on the second level.