Psalm 107:25 – “For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which
lifteth up the waves thereof.”
One Sunday evening after a terrible
storm had passed through, I heard Brian Galloway of the Galloway Family give
this testimony: “I’ll never forget –
probably a year after I got saved – I heard an old man of God that I became
well acquainted with by the name of Claude Nicholson. Brother Claude was just old school – never really
preached with an outline – just your typical mountain type preacher – I don’t
think I’ve ever even seen him wear a tie.
But the old man knew God. I
remember him making a statement one time and it stuck with me. He said concerning a storm that there are
three sides to a storm.
He said that there’s Our side to a storm – and it’s a dismal
side. You get in a storm like we were in
on our way to church tonight and you can’t see that well. And that’s the way storms are – You just can’t
see – It’s hard to make decisions in a storm.
But he said not only is there our
side of the storm, he said there is an Omniscient
side to the storm. “For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind,” the psalmist says
in Psalms 107:25. And God’s got the
proper perspective on this thing. If you
get in an airplane and travel miles up, it’s pretty clear up there. You can see pretty good, and if you get the
divine perspective on things you can see well.
And although we’re down here ringing our hands trying to figure out what
to do with the next move and trying to make dangling ends meet, God’s not got a
panic button, you know. And I’m having
to remind myself of that all the time – to just be patient in a storm – and it’s
tough. Patience is an uncomplaining endurance of an extreme
annoyance – I looked it up one time.
I don’t have a whole lot of that, to be quite honest with you, but that’s
the purpose in a storm. God puts us in a
storm to produce patience in us.
But there’s those two sides, our
side and the omniscient side of the storm – but thank God there’s the Other side of a storm. Storms come and go. I’m like the old preacher who said, “My
favorite phrase in the Bible is ‘and it
came to pass.’” I’m glad some things
didn’t come to stay, aren’t you? “And it came to pass” – I don’t know
what kind of storm you’re in – I don’t know what you’re facing tonight. But you just hang onto God and endeavor to
get the perspective of God, seek wisdom in that thing, and I can assure you that
somewhere here soon there’s going to be a rainbow spring out. That right!
I’m glad I’m saved tonight! I’m
glad I’ve got a God I can trust in when we go through a storm!” The
Galloway Family then sang this song:
It Will Pass
See the storm, Do not fear it.
Hear the winds, now don’t you be alarmed.
If your soul can bear the sorrow,
There’s bound to be a rainbow Right after the storm.
And it will pass, the Son will break through.
Clouds will roll back like the sea.
And it will pass, oh soul be patient.
Oh how sweet the victory.
O soul be calm, Just rest in his keeping.
Never you fear, for our God’s in control.
And He rides the wind and He’ll chart your vessel
And He will calm those billows that are tossing your soul.
And it will pass, the Son will break through.
Clouds will roll back like the sea.
And it will pass, oh soul be patient.
Oh how sweet the victory.
Quote - "But this is the point, dear brothers and sisters - no soul that rests in Jesus will ever be wrecked. You may have the tempests and tossings, but you will come to land; be sure of that." - C. H Spurgeon
