So one night I was out snowboarding down our road. I was out there in the dark, in the cold, in the wind, the snow was blowing and it was bouncing off my face. It was amazing. When I looked around me I saw so much beauty.
Being in the middle of a winter storm has a way of making you feel really small. So I then started to contemplate how big the world is. To answer that question, it is big. I stood there in the middle of the storm and thought I'm really small. I am a small creature on this earth!
We don't think like that. We are always thinking we are the greatest because we have been able to make this, figure this out, and cure this or whatever. We made machines that transport us to other places easily and we have put a man on the moon, but when it comes down to it we aren't that great. Yes, we are made in God's image, but we messed up, we brought sin into the world. By our own work we haven't done anything of value, its only because of God's help that we can do anything.
We shouldn't be afraid to go out there and put ourselves into positions where we must trust in God's love and care. I'm not saying that we should go do something stupid, but instead learn to trust God in times of trouble when we can't do anything by ourselves.
Being in the middle of the storm reminds me of how big the world we live on is and how much bigger is the God that created it all. Even though God is so big and much greater than us He still sacrificed Himself for us because of love. When we are in the middle of a storm (trouble) and see that we have no control over it, God still does. If we then decide to trust Him in that storm, He is the one who gets the glory when the storm is calmed. The profound beauty of storms or troubles is that they Glorify God because of the work He does in and with them.
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