We had quite a storm blow through last week.
Black skies. Strong winds. Horizontal rain. Flying shingles.
When the worst of it had blown over, we ventured out to survey the damage.
Shingles littered the yard.
Corn stalks from the neighbor’s fields hung in the trees.
One skylight on the workshop was broken.
Branches and sticks were everywhere.
And one huge silver maple tree was ripped from the ground by the roots.
Wow.
That storm left a mark that we will be cleaning up for sometime!
But as we started to pick up sticks and sharpened the chain saw, we noticed a common theme.
The shingles were all from the old house. They were old, worn and not well attached. The limbs that had blown down were mostly dead branches.
And that big old silver maple? It was totally rotted inside.
The storm did the most damage to those things that were not well grounded or secure.
But the tree didn’t look rotten from the outside. It was big and beautiful and fully leafed out.
And we never saw all the dead branches and limbs hiding in the foliage.
But when the storm hit, it didn’t matter what they looked like on the outside or how well hidden they were. The strong winds found and destroyed them.
There’s a lesson here.
The storms of life will come.
The winds of adversity will blow hard and you will feel deluged by the realities around you.
And when they do – will you stand firm?
Is your faith solid to the core?
Can you stand secure in your heavenly Father?
Dig your roots down deep into the bedrock of His faithfulness and let it rain!
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