powerless before the storm

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,

that a flood of waters may cover you?

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go

and say to you, ‘Here we are’?”

Job 38:34-35

When the storms come, God knows exactly what He is doing. The winds blow, the rains pour, and the lightning all strikes at His command. I can only observe the power of the storm. God is the One Who directs it. I am powerless before the fury of the storm. God is powerful over the storm.

So when the winds blow, when lightning strikes and thunder crashes and the deluge soaks the world from above, I will remember my place. I am a frail man at the mercy of God Who controls all things... even the path of the storm. By His control the earth is watered and the storm powerfully moves across the landscape, providing nourishing rain, and sometimes rearranging the earth and the lives upon it... all at the Creator’s control. It teaches me to respect the mighty power of God.

“There’s no a plant or flow’r below

but makes Thy glories known;

And clouds arise, and tempests blow,

by order from Thy throne;

While all that borrows life from Thee 

is ever in Thy care;

And everywhere that man can be,

Thou, God, art present there.”

— Isaac Watts