This weekend, August 26-27, 2011 we are hearing about Hurricane Irene. Her high winds are going to be of such force as to overwhelm people in coastal towns along the eastern seaboard. Storms frighten us, and rightly so. We cannot stare down 100 mph winds. The storm is an apt metaphor for life. Sometimes the winds blow and almost destroy us.
In the gospel of Jesus as Mark recorded it, there is the story of a storm calmed by Jesus. He merely spoke to the storm and told the winds and the waves to behave themselves. The disciples asked, "Don't you care if we drown?" (Mark 4:38, NIV). Of course, he cares! Our God does not aways spare us from going through the storm. Neither does he guarantee that there won't be injuries or fatalities. We do know that Christ is present with us in the storm.
In 1905, Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933) wrote the hymn, Stand By Me. The first stanza reminds me of Hurricane Irene.
"When the storms of life are raging, stand by me;
When the storms of life are raging, stand by me;
When the world is tossing me like a ship upon the sea;
Thou who rulest wind and water, stand by me.
Irene may seem to rule the east coast today, but God rules Irene!!
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