In The Pool, In A Storm

Have you ever been in a pool during a storm? I have! And I've been the one not wanting to get out despite the impending danger!! How big is God to us? Something we've been asking ourselves at church recently is, "Is God big enough?" 

So many times our ways seem good to us. But will we have faith enough to trust the One who's got the full picture when we can only see things from our limited perspectives? 

2 TIMOTHY 4:2&3 Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching. (Sidenote: This is a particular truth for those within the family of believers) 

3 For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold,

Who wants to be told in which ways they may be straying from the path God has laid out? I've been there many times and I know how uncomfortable and painful it can be to know you've got some big pruning to do. It is not a good feeling to be corrected or to have to choose to course correct. But like a Good Father who sees his child swimming as a storm approaches, sometimes God calls us out of something good and fun and comfortable into something even more good-something safe. His perspective is bigger than ours-but something I am asking myself is...do I have faith enough to trust Him and what His word says? We have limited perspective and in our vision it doesn't add up sometimes... But will we trust how Big God is? And finally, I leave you with this question, what pool are you swimming in that you simply need to trust the Father and remove yourself from? Despite how fun, how comfortable, or how happy you are... His perspective is calling you out of the water into safety! Don't neglect His voice until you are deaf to it. 

A prayer: 

God today it is not welcomed or convenient to speak the truth of your word. But would you give your children eyes to see and not allow us to be blinded. You warn us not to have itching ears and you warn that in the end even the elect may be tricked if this were possible so we must guard ourselves from false doctrine and teaching. May I not hold unswervingly to the ways of my wayward heart (be it selfishness, be it anger, be it pride, be it greed or envy) but instead be willing to hold unswervingly to your truth. May the truth of your word change me. May I be willing to even surrender my comfort if it means I am following your ways. May I trust your bigger perspective and lean less into what satisfies my own desires. Call me out and give me courage and strength and faith to leave the pool. 

Ps I must credit my amazing and visionary momma for the vision of how our Father responds in impending storms.