God Certainly IS Good
“God will fight your battles if you just keep still. He is able to carry you through. Trust Him. Keep standing, keep believing and keep hoping.” ~
Last Tuesday, my world — and the world of all of us in Northwest Indiana and the vast majority of Indiana as well — fell apart. A derecho came howling through the region packing winds around 100 mph. The derecho also packed an EF1 tornado that went through Munster and an EF2 tornado that went through St. John.
Then, silence.
We were without. Without power, some without a place to stay because their homes had been severely damaged, and most without hope. After all, how do you hold on to hope after many days without electricity and with water coming into your homes? We’re not talking hours, we’re talking days.
Yesterday afternoon around 3:00 p.m., the power that I had lost last Tuesday was finally restored in the neighborhood in which I live. I had light. I had air conditioning (my condo was at 84 degrees when I finally got power). I had hope once again.
I know. Some of you might say, “Father, what do you mean you had hope once again? You didn’t lose hope, did you?” Well, no and yes.
I clung to hope in the bigger picture and sense of the word. I know that there is a God and that He has a plan for all of us. But after many nights sleeping in awful heat and humidity, I was beginning to lose that hope/will that drives us each day.
God does fight our battles. Sometimes He invites us in radical ways to sit still and listen to Him. In the heat, all I could do was sit. Sit and drink water and sweat and repeat. At the end of day two, as I was praying, I sensed God saying, “Have I got your attention yet?”
Yes. He did. And He does. And I hope to continue to pay attention to Him and to draw near to Him in prayer and in hope.
FAITH ACTION: Please pray for all of those who still have no power and for those who are working so hard in our area to restore our power to us.