Working Parts

When the Disciples where out fishing they where suddenly hit by a great storm. They started to panic and started to think that they where all going to drown.

They looked at Jesus and saw he was fast asleep so woke him up in the panic. Jesus woke and stood up and called out 'Peace be still'' and at that point the storm stopped and the waves calmed.

He turned to the disciples and said, why you panicking for, do you think Id let you drown?

What Jesus was did was question the faith of the disciples. He saw the panic in their eyes and was telling them to trust him.

I think sometimes putting trust in God can be the hardest thing to do when we go through bad times, and many time we just cant see the end of them. Time after time things just seem to go wrong one thing after another and before long it just seems like we are in the middle of the Storm.

How can you Trust in God when it seems that trusting him hasn't got you anywhere in the the past. When you have trusted and faithfully seemed to have followed his lead then it has all just come crashing down again.

A tricky thing to learn is patients, you want prayers answered the moment you say Amen, you want to touch that certain something but you just cant seem to reach it.

That's not how God works. It takes time to make everything work for good. You cant Just take parts of an engine and and chuck them into a bonnet of a car and expect it to work. Each part has to go together in the right way for it to work.

This is the same as things we want, and to make things work that we ask for means other things have to be in the right place too. But God is always working to put all the parts in the right place.