Still Today God So Loves Man III

Still Today God So Loves Man (He Shows Up in the Storm)

God loves you so much and He wants to have fellowship with you!  You are the apple of His eye!  In this 3rd part of ‘Still Today God So Loves Man’ I want to share yet another real life testimony of how God proved to me that He still wants to have fellowship with us, even in the storm.  Remember in God’s Word how Jesus showed up walking on the water to the disciples as they were fearing death on the stormy sea?  Can you imagine their thoughts when He said “peace be still” and the winds stopped and the water became calm?  I have to tell you, when He says “peace be still” it calms more than just the winds and the waves.  It calms the raging fears that have surrounded you and replaces them with a peace that no one else could give.  Oh to be in the presence of the Lord just moments after your world seemed to be crashing around you.  He gives a perfect peace, suddenly from the pits of hell to the mountains of Heaven you are lifted up!  We have a Savior who wants to be with us in the storm when we call!

A few years back I was in the middle of one of those storms and I did not know that He was there.  Everything that could go wrong was going wrong and on top of it all, I felt like the Lord was not there either.  Right when I needed Him most I could not feel His presence and I could not hear His voice.  It was near panic in my life.  I decided that I needed to get away from everything, where I could try to get in touch with God.

I went to the beach.  It was kind of a nasty day at the beach weather-wise but that just made it easier to be alone with God.  I just began talking to Him, telling Him how much I loved Him and how I missed Him.  I didn’t want to complain to Him about all the stuff that was going on in my life because I was confident that everything He allows in my life is for my good, just as the Word says.  But, I wanted Him to know that I loved Him and I needed Him.  I wanted to know that He was still there.  I wanted Him to tell me that He loved me.  I just wanted to hear His voice and feel His presence.  I needed a light… it was so dark in my storm.

I don’t know how long I walked the beach in the storm but I think I ran out of tears and almost decided to leave.  But then I noticed there seemed to be a calm, not in the weather but in my spirit.  Then, in almost perfect stillness I seemed to hear Him ask, “What do you want?”  Well, what I wanted was to know that He still loved me and cared for me, especially after the long dry spell – where I could not feel His presence.  And, I wanted to hear His voice again.  Well, it didn’t even click at the time but I was now feeling His presence and hearing His voice.  And God in His perfect Love knew that I needed just a little bit more, so He pressed me to ask for something.  I have to admit I did want something a little more tangible and He knew it.  So I told Him, “You know I have been raised on the beach and I have never found anything really cool on the beach.  If this is you and you still love me and care for me, will you help me find something cool on the beach?”  I told God I just wanted to be close to Him and that knowing He was there and I was in His hands was good enough for me.  Then I heard a loud crash on the beach and looked up… it was a big wave and it was moving very fast toward me.  I began moving more at an angle to the surf to get farther away from the water… it was coming fast… I walked faster and then looked back at the water.  There, right at my feet being rolled by the remaining little bit of a wave, was a fisherman’s bat.  It was from God and He rolled it right up to my feet.  We cried and we had fellowship as I went from what was the pits of hell to me to the mountains of Heaven in just a moment of time.  I knew then that He is always there.  He calmed my storm in a flash.  I still had to go back from the beach but the storm in me was over.  

John 14:23 is a promise from God that He wants to be with us… “Jesus answered and said unto him, ‘If a man love me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.’”  ‘Keeping’ His Word is taking His Word and applying it to our lives… following His teachings.  As evident in the testimony above, God still wants that fellowship and wants to be with us more than we want to be with Him!  It is the walk… the walk with Him on His path where we find Him and have that fellowship.

It is my hope that these real life testimonies will bring hope and peace to you and will strengthen your faith in Him.  Stay on the path of God’s Word and you too will see God’s Word come alive in you!  

God bless you.