Spend time in prayer and silence with God asking him to meet you and speak to you.
Bible Reading
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month-on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
– Genesis 7:11-16
Devotion
Noah was quite good at prepping! His whole family had joined him in preparing to save humanity as well as all the species of animals. When they finally got on the boat, God was the one who shut them in. At that point everything was out of His hands.
When Noah and his family boarded the ark, they knew that they were about to experience the greatest storm in history. They were going to ride it out in a boat that they had built. But God is the Lord of the storm. He was bringing it for a reason. The great flood would accomplish what God wanted it to accomplish, and He had shut the door on Noah and his family to keep them safe.
One of the greatest difficulties people face is the desire to be in control in a bad situation. We get angry, we argue with God, we fight circumstances that we can’t change. Those tough situations are out of our hands anyway. We can trust God. Even if we aren’t in control, He is.
The Big Question
How has God taken care of you when you were in the middle of a storm? How can you keep your rest in him when you go through one again?
Conclude in prayer and silence reflecting on what you’ve learned.