"Tornadoes are destructive, small-scale storms, which produce the fastest winds on earth. There are two main types—single-vortex tornadoes, which consist of a single spinning column of air, and multiple-vortex tornadoes, which consist of small suction vortices, resembling mini-tornadoes themselves, all rotating around a common center.
Both of these types of tornadoes are theorized to have calm centers, referred to by some meteorologists as "eyes". These theories are supported by doppler velocity observations by weather radar and eyewitness accounts." Wikipedia
As I was getting ready for work one morning, my mind was spinning. So much going on with my marriage, my son, my job....trying to figure out what to do about this or that. Suddenly, I heard a voice in my head say, "be still". Be still? How could I be still with so many issues to deal with and problems to resolve? Then I heard the Lord's voice in my head saying "It is calm in the eye of the storm. Be still and nothing spinning around you can touch you." I got a picture like the one from the original Wizard of Oz movie, where Dorothy is in the house looking out the window and things are spinning by - the witch on the bicycle, grandma in the rocking chair, the cow! Remember that scene?
I realized that was the way the circumstances in my life were, spinning around me, and that I was constantly tempted to reach out and grab them. But, if I were to do that, I would be pulled in with them and spinning out of control myself. But, if I stayed still, trusting God with them, He would take care of all of those things and give me peace.
If we can just stop....stop trying to fix everything ourselves, stop blaming, stop making excuses, stop reaching out for things that are not good for us. Just STOP....and be STILL and see what the Lord will do, He will amaze us every time.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 36:10
Both of these types of tornadoes are theorized to have calm centers, referred to by some meteorologists as "eyes". These theories are supported by doppler velocity observations by weather radar and eyewitness accounts." Wikipedia
As I was getting ready for work one morning, my mind was spinning. So much going on with my marriage, my son, my job....trying to figure out what to do about this or that. Suddenly, I heard a voice in my head say, "be still". Be still? How could I be still with so many issues to deal with and problems to resolve? Then I heard the Lord's voice in my head saying "It is calm in the eye of the storm. Be still and nothing spinning around you can touch you." I got a picture like the one from the original Wizard of Oz movie, where Dorothy is in the house looking out the window and things are spinning by - the witch on the bicycle, grandma in the rocking chair, the cow! Remember that scene?
I realized that was the way the circumstances in my life were, spinning around me, and that I was constantly tempted to reach out and grab them. But, if I were to do that, I would be pulled in with them and spinning out of control myself. But, if I stayed still, trusting God with them, He would take care of all of those things and give me peace.
If we can just stop....stop trying to fix everything ourselves, stop blaming, stop making excuses, stop reaching out for things that are not good for us. Just STOP....and be STILL and see what the Lord will do, He will amaze us every time.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 36:10