It is good we aren't in charge of "picking" storms. We are so eager to get the "right" one we will take most anything out there. Irene was our hope and she headed North." Goodnight Irene ... Ill see you in my dreams", or nightmares.
We do think we need a tropical storm, bringing five to ten inches. We'd like the winds to not exceed 40-50 MPH. No twisters. Some high tide, but not over two feet. Coming ashore south of us in the King Ranch but sending the drought-breaking moisture our way.That's what we need, Lord.
Yes, we lay it all out to God....and He is saying, "Since when did you get into weather?.You have not done too well in simply living and being the people I want. How could you ever think that I would trust you with the weather? This earth is a rather large globe and all this weather has to fit together. How about simply leaving all that up to me?"
Horatius Palmer and Mary Baker wrote this gospel song about seventy years ago. It is based on the biblical account of Jesus calming the seas when His disciples thought they were going to drown. The music rings in my mind even as I begin to type the words:
Master, the tempest is raging
The billows are tossing high
The sky is o'ershadowed with blackness,
No shelter or help is nigh!
Carest thou not that we perish?
How canst Thou lie asleep
When each moment so madly is threat'ning
A grave in the angry deep?
The winds and the waves shall obey My will
"Peace be still. Peace be still."
Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea.
Or demons, or men, or what-ever it be,
No water can swallow the ship where lies
The Master of ocean and earth and skies!
They all shall sweetly obey My will
"Peace be still. Peace be still"
They all shall sweetly obey My will,
"Peace, Peace be still."
Maybe we should back off from telling God exactly what we need at this time, and simply trust him to send, or not send, from His storehouse of blessing what is best for us.
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