Arise With God!
"And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the
boat was covered with the waves…. Then He arose and
rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm."
Matthew 8: 24, 26
Missionary Amy Carmichael often sent insights to her workers
from her own daily devotions. One day she told them how she
had been helped by two phrases in Matthew 8: And
suddenly
a great tempest arose…. Then He arose.
She pointed out that when the storms arise,
that’s when Jesus arises to deal with them.
“There are almost always waves,” Amy wrote. “Now and then
we have times of quietness—little lulls, I used to call them,
but far more often the wind is blowing from
one quarter or
another, and so there are waves…. But that is not the
whole story.”
No, that’s not the whole story! The storms
and the waves are a part of life; they arise.
But our Lord also arises to deal with them, to help us, to
protect and navigate us, accompany us, to work on our
behalf, and to turn the storms into streams of mercy.
"When I am toiling in rowing, almost engulfed
in the sea, make of the billows a pathway,
come thro’ the darkness to me."
Manie P. Ferguson
