He Calms the Storm

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.   

-C.S. Lewis

When I read this quote by C.S. Lewis, I went right past it. I was looking for something to go with today’s Scripture, Psalm 107:29…

He calms the storm,

So that its waves are still.

Then, I came back to it. I ignored that quote again and again until I could no longer ignore it. I decided I should select another passage in the Bible. 

That’s when my eyes were opened. These two unrelated things- a quote about feeling like I don’t belong in this world and a passage about calling the storm- really do belong together. 

As Christians, we really are strangers in a strange land, aliens, just passing through on our way to a better place. This world can never satisfy us. I’m fact, we often find it scary. Nearly every day, we face storms. Awful, horrific storms; they are made even scarier because we are far from home. 

I get scared often. I don’t think I’m alone. 

Praise be, I don’t travel this land alone. God goes with me. When the storms rage, He calms the them or He shelters us safe in His arms. He reminds us that our citizenship is in heaven and this path will lead us there. 

So let the storm clouds rage high,

The dark clouds rise,

They don’t worry me;

For I’m sheltered in the arms of God.

He walks with me,

And naught of earth shall harm me,

For I’m sheltered in the arms of God.

– Dottie Rambo