Spring and summer in the Treasure Valley in Idaho are a constantly changing weather picture. We can be cold one day, blazing hot the next. But the best are the thunderstorms that just seem to appear out of nowhere.
A couple weeks ago such a thunderstorm hit us. The sky grew dark, and the wind began to howl. It began to pour. I could hear the thunder and lightning accompanying the noisy wind. Water came off the roof in buckets. It was great. I stood in the doorway and watched the clouds race across the sky. And then just as suddenly as it came up, it was gone. Weather peace descended again.
Everyone has storms in life. Sometimes they come up just like the Treasure Valley thunderstorms that dot our weather pattern in spring and summer. It is when the storms are buffeting us that we need to remember that Jesus is our song amid the storm.
There is a marvelous song that I listen to during my worship walks, “Let It Be Jesus.” It begins with these words, “Let it be Jesus. The first name that I call. Let it be Jesus. My song inside the storm”
My song inside the storm of life is this, “for me to live is Christ.” And one day when that final storm wins its battle over my body, I shall know firsthand that “to die is gain.” [Philippians 1:21]
