Don't You Care?

Continuing the thought from yesterday...

God really rebuked me this week as I mentioned yesterday as He demonstrated again that He is in control and that I need to remember that.  It is easy to trust God in sunshine but when the sky darkens and the wind whips, we tend to start questioning.  And I at least usually feel pretty justified in that questioning.  I am regularly more impressed with the challenges of the creation than the power of the Creator.  Like these guys.

And there arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up. Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm. And He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?" (Mark 4:37-40 NAS)

At first I say, "wow, how foolish for those guys to question whether or not God cares!"  Then, I start stressing out and I react to situations as if I am facing them alone with no recourse and no help.  If I feel overwhelmed by circumstances, I get all upset and worried and stressed and THEN I cry out to God and do some variation of, "don't you care?"

Why can't I sleep with Christ?  The storm didn't bother Him a bit and He looks at His disciples and wonders why their all upset.  I need to not simply come to God with my stress, I need to come to God BEFORE my stress.  I need to remember that He is in control and while I may face storms, I do not face them alone and whatever He's going to do, He can do and I can trust Him.  He may not calm every storm, but I may always be calm.

The Bible calls it peace.  I was bad at that this week.

How about you?