I was going to write about another anchor point today, but something else was on my heart. Yesterday morning, as I struggled to wake up and have some quiet time in the Scriptures, one verse stood out like a candle in a dark room.
Who but God goes up to Heaven and comes back down? Who holds the wind in His fists? Who wraps up the oceans in His cloak? Who has created the whole wide world? What is His name - and His Son's name? Tell me if you know! ~Proverbs 30:4
My eyes fell on two lines... Who holds the wind in His fists... who wraps the oceans in His cloak.
For two days I've been watching the devastating footage of Katrina's aftermath, especially in New Orleans, where I use to live - where I still have so many friends - where my own sister lives and works. And this verse was comforting.
It is God who holds the wind in His fists and wraps the oceans in His cloak. Nothing happens that He doesn't know about.
New Orleans: Photo by Michael Ainsworth / DMN
(The home in the middle has "HELP" on the roof)
My family is fine, although we think my sister's apartment is completely underwater. I cringe when I think of the things she's likely lost.
Those winds and waters destroyed many homes, tooks many lives, and left many without jobs or much security to come back to. But if I turn an angry face towards God as the culprit...
then i've forgotten a very important thing about God :: HE IS GOD.
Instead, i'll choose to thank Him for sparing so many lives, and I'll look for Him to work His good into this tragedy. In the mean time, He is teaching me about how big He is... and how easily I become attached to my small material possesions that weren't really mine to begin with.
2 comments:
Wow. You said it. How quickly we forget just WHO He is, don't we? That was perfect, and wouldn't ya know it, it was a Proverb of the day. He is soooooo fitting, isn't he?!
I linked to your blog through Hollie's. I am a student at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and we evacuated from the hurricane to Georgia. My husband and I are sure that our apartment is completely underwater as it was on the ground floor. We also hate to think of all the things that will be lost. We've never been more uncertain about the future than right now. But we have been holding to the fact that we can trust in God's sovereignty because He is good. Thanks for your comforting words and Word from God.
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