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  • Our Journey Through The Valley (21)

    10 June, 2013

    MIKE:  Bev is having a great time with the trust and assurance that God is building into her heart - especially with the episode of Jesus in the boat in the storm (about which she wrote in the last episode.  I am grateful for these insights she has because they reassure her and strengthen her resolve (and mine as we travel this journey together. I should encourage her to tell you about these things herself.

    BEV:  I mentioned the storm story last time I wrote in our journal. But since then I have been reminded that there are two storms mentioned in Mark. The one in chapter 4 was swift, unexpected and potentially lethal.  The one in chapter 6 was more drawn out. It doesn't seem to be life-threatening like the earlier one. This one was just plain hard work. Rowing against the tide, so to speak.

    However, the more aware I become of how quickly this disease seems to be spreading, the more I feel like I'm in the first of those storms. Of course, the difference in both cases was the presence of Jesus. I also mentioned recently that this confronts me with a choice. I can panic as did the disciples and choose to cry out through lack of faith, "Lord, don't you care that I'm about to perish OR I can go and get a cushion and lie down and relax with Jesus

    But what has struck me recently is what follows the storm. Mark calls it a "great calm".  The Amplified Bible calls it "a great and a wonderful calm".

     

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