Moms Two Cents

Have you been through a life experience with feelings of hopelessness and uncertainty, not knowing whether you could overcome and continue? I think we all have faced some degree of this feeling in our lives. Whether it be separation from someone we love, heartache, disappointment, illness, or rejection.

Whether we are in the finest most exuberant points of our lives or just struggling through, we can quickly be overtaken by a fast approaching un-forecasted storm in life. Quickly we can be thrown into a ragging struggle that can feel unwinnable with no end or peaceful horizon visible. During these storms feelings of doubt, despair and grief can devour all hope, joy and peace from our souls. We are tormented by “no way out”,” unwinnable”, “what’s the use”, feelings and emotions.

During these times of despair we need only to muster up the strength to cast out one lifeline… one morsel of hope… that is our faith in the one who can either swiftly overcome our struggle for us, or hold us in his safe embrace through our storm. By calling out for help and peace during our storm we can be comforted and embraced with the “peace that passes all human understanding”.

Depending on the struggle, Jesus will either deliver us from our ragging sea or envelope us with a soothing peace as we tread through the crashing waves. We may not understand at the time why Jesus chooses to either command our storm to cease or allow us to continue through the winds and rain, but we can keep faith in knowing that going through our storms by holding close to Him we can mature spiritually. By drawing closer to him through our storm our faith and patience in learning to trust in Him can be strengthened beyond measure.

We will experience struggles, afflictions, deep pains, heartache and grief. We don’t have to endure the storm alone, without hope, we can call out to God and trust in His power. As followers in Christ we are not awarded a “free pass” from the wrath of lifes furious storms, but we are comforted through our faith and trust in Christ during our storm.

Songs

Music and song can inspire and uplift us, speak to our soul, give us strength in times of need, reveal truths and empower our walk as Christians.

David was a shepherd, great warrior and Jewish King. He was also a musician and author of some of the most beautiful poems ever written in the book of Psalm. The bible refers to music and song and how it was used as thanks and Praise to God.

Psalm 138 – ¹ I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise. (NIV)

If you are inspired and touched by the spirit through song, the links below are suggestions that may touch and comfort you when confronted with a storm in life.

Bible Passages

1 Peter 5:7 – ⁷ Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Psalm 18:2 ^{– 2} The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 34:18 – ¹⁸ The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Luke 12:7 – ⁷ Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

1 John 4:4 – “⁴ You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Isaiah 41:10 – ¹⁰ So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Psalm 9:9 – ⁹ The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Psalm 22:24 – ²⁴ For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

Psalm 27:4-5 – ⁴ One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. ⁵ For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.

Psalm 37:39 – ³⁹ The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.

Psalm 46:1-3 – ¹ God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. ² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, ³ though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.

Matthew 11:28-30 – ²⁸ “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 – ⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.