The Calm Before The Storm

It’s nice today.  I mean, for February.  The sun is shining, it isn’t too windy.  All around it’s a pretty good day.

Tomorrow it is supposed to snow.  And while we aren’t forecasted to get anything like our friends in the Northeast, I’m still less than thrilled.  If you know anything about me you know that I hate snow.  I’m a firm believer that when God created Adam and Eve in the garden he made them naked because snow was never a part of the plan.  The plan was a balmy 75 degrees with a decent humidity. 

Then there was the snake and the fruit and the sin and the fall…and that’s how we got snow.

I was thinking that today was the proverbial “calm before the storm.”  Tomorrow all bets are off, but today everything is peaceful.

Ok, I know that where I’m going with this is a little cliché, but George Lucas once said “the cliché’s are cliché because they work.”  We all face storms in life, and often think back to the moments of calm and long for all the trouble to go away.  But God, who is in complete control of the universe, doesn’t work like that.  He allows the storms in our lives because He desires to shape our character.  God is working in us, allowing the storms to help us become the people that He wants us to be.  But the wonderful thing about our God is that He is there with us through everything we face.  If we trust Him, we have the chance to experience the calm within the storm as well.