Like a Tornado

Life sometimes feel like a tornado. Like you cant get your foot hold. Like the things all around you are being discombobulated for no reason. No matter how much you prepare for difficult or challenging times it seems as though you never prepared for the right type of tornado that is coming through.If you think about the progress of a tornado- the news notifies the residence, the media continues to update the exact timing of when this tornado would be hitting your life and then all of a sudden you can see the weather change. You can see the beginning of the tornado that seems unbearable. Seems like you cant avoid it. You are in the path of this tornado and this disaster. So you start to get out all the things that you have prepared. You think that you have done enough. Then the tornado gets closer and closer. You start feeling the destruction and you begin to question if you have prepared enough. You then realize it is out of your reach out of your control. So you panic. Isn't our world like this sometimes. Even as a christian we begin to get so comfortable and we are doing so well on our own and then something bigger than ourselves approaches. Something out of our control comes and we panic. We realize how we have been living a life on our own and then we expect God to save us when we call on Him in the time of need. Can you imagine how if must feel to only be wanted, to only be talked to when someone wants help from you. I would feel used, I would be filled with anger... well thank God that He is not that way. He give us grace every time. He doesn't turn His back, He doesn't say we don't deserve it even though in truth we don't deserve it. So when a tornado does head our way we can trust that God's will and purpose is going to take place. But I am challenged to trust, to pray, to depend during the easy times, to plant our roots in God, during the preparation of the tornado times. Because if we aren't always prepared we will be destroyed. So Trust, Persevere after God's heart. Become like His character. Have love for those around you, even when you don't feel like they are loving you. Give them grace for God is giving us grace every moment of the day. Every tornado is different. Every preparation is different and only God knows how to prepare to be able to overcome the tornado in your life.

Jeremiah 17:5-10 reads "This is what the Lord says: "Cursed is the one who trusts man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. he will dwell in the parched places of the desert. In a salt land where no one lives. "But blessed is the man who trusts in the lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. it does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

So are you going to Trust in yourself or trust and depend on the living God who can help you in times of need and during the tornado?