Psalm 107:22-31

Quite frankly, I don’t like large bodies of water. I don’t like to be on them, I don’t like to be in them, I don’t mind being by them. To sit by the ocean and watch the waves is a fine experience. I don’t want to be in that ocean or on that ocean. When I read Psalm 107:22-31, I almost get seasick. Here is a description of a storm at sea, verse 25, “For [God] commandeth, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves. They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.”

What do you do in the storms of life? Now, storms do come to our lives. You might be in a storm right now. Here are these mariners who are experienced sailors and they’re frightened, they’re staggering like drunken men. They are at their wit’s end. Sometimes the storms are caused by other people. In Acts 27, Paul got into a storm because the people in charge would not listen to the Word of God. Sometimes God causes the storm to help to test us and build us. 

Matthew 14, The Lord Jesus sent his disciples right into a storm to teach them an important lesson of faith. Sometimes we cause the storm. We’re like Jonah, we run away from God and the only way God can bring us back is to send the storm. 

I would remind you that the greatest storm that ever occurred on this earth was at Calvary, when the sun was blackened for three hours and when God the Son was made sin for us. All the waves and the billows of God’s judgement came upon the Lord Jesus there on the cross. 

Now, you and I can cry out to God and He will deliver us from the storms of life or take us through the storms of life, give us the strength and courage we need. Verse 29 of Psalm 107 promises, “He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still … and He brings them into their desired haven.”