Two fellows-in-a-ship in the storm

 I have to apologise for not sending out my blog diligently everyday for the last month because I hit a tsunami for four weeks, July. Do not worry I am okay, barely, with battle scars to prove it. I was retrenched, my computer packed up, went into a depression, no finances and so on. One good thing is not feeling lonely because I know there are many of you that feel the same..... So okay let’s just stop for a second and ask why the storms, we are Christians and yet storms hit us so hard we sometimes feel like we beaten from every side by a baseball bat. Are we supposed to go through these storms? Did I do anything to deserve it? Did I sin? Does God love me and where is He in all this? Why is He allowing this to happen? Maybe you feeling lonely and depressed, maybe you have a very big decision to make, whatever it is it is, YOU in a storm and it may seem like nothing to someone else but for YOU it is hard.

This vast is all about learning how much God loves us.....He wants the best for us so how do we deal with these storms. Can God make it disappear?

The disciples were in a few storms during Jesus’ ministry. Background about the disciples, they where fisherman they knew the storms, they lived it and studied it, they knew the winds and what clouds bought what weather. The scriptures do not explain the disciples breathing one word to Jesus about not crossing the sea because there is bad weather coming. No, they were hit by a storm unexpectedly every time, although they knew allot about boats and how to handle a storm, they found themselves stuck in it and terrified? But Jesus pitched up every time.....

The Lord showed me a picture of a timeline starting with “A” and the end of the line a “B” call it the target, the end result. To get from A to B we need to go on a journey. We focus on the target because that is what we need to get to. Whatever your target is at the moment, a job, a sales target, falling pregnant, meeting a husband, putting a function together or making that big decision, you need to get to the result. Moving from A to B you need to go through the storm, the storm teaches you and prepares you for the result. We are so focussed on the result that we want to fly over the sea to the other side above the storm and get to B ASAP. God is not interested in the B part only we are; the B part is the reward the gift at the end of the amazing race. God is interested in how you get there, what are you doing while you travelling to B and what is your attitude and your faith whilst getting to B. Maybe if our focus is taken of B then we can walk on water. Think about it, Peter was the only man ever to have been able to walk on water, if he took the plane that day he would have missed out on being part of a miracle.

I have a different attitude about storms now, storms there will always be, we cannot wish it away. But when a non-christian looks at me and he sees me going through these storms I will only show joy so that they will say “How can Silma be so calm during this time?” instead of “look at Silma things always go wrong in her life”. Fear is the only thing that can steal my joy, and fear will not prevent me from being part of a great miracle, maybe I can be the second person that can walk on water, lol (watch the headlines in the Raport).

You are not alone in this; we all go through these storms. Christian, no Christian, people just do not always talk about their storms because it has become fashion to keep it together. God is teaching you every day, he taught his disciples to rely on Him through the storm and God creates miracles in the storms. So hold on to Jesus!!!! And remember “Christianity is not for sissies”....says the one fellow to the other fellow in the ship – “Fellow-ship”