Jesus Christ has power over the storms of our life

                                                                Hebrews 13:8-9
New International Version (NIV)
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so.

For Christians everywhere the holiest weekend is upon us. iIt begins with good Friday when Christ was crucified on the cross along with two common criminals. The two on either side of him knew the crimes that sentenced them to death, but with Christ they could not find anything wrong that would subject Him this violent form of punishment.

Imagine if you will if you were one of the followers of Christ who witnessed many of the miracles he performed.  You are standing at a safe distance watching the Roman guards  nailing nails into his palms of his hands and into his feet.  Imagine the emotional tremors through your body and the wetness caused by the tears that are flowing down your face as you watch this Christ going through this pain.

Imagine if you will if you were one of those that received a healing from this man.  You were born with a physical impairment and were unable to walk and once you reached adulthood the only trade you knew was to sit on the ground begging for the mercy of  people to drop coins into your lap. You had been healed and you are also watching this man Jesus who you now are convinced that He is who he says he is, but you are scared because if you make any effort to convince those around you to believe that you would end up in the same place as Christ is at this moment.  You are crying silently and at one point you see your Savior looking into your eyes as though he knew that in the end everything was going to work out.

Imagine if you will if you were Peter one the followers  of Christ who in the end had denied Christ 3 time and not until a cock crowed did you remember your Savior's words.  You vowed to always follow this Christ because after all you saw his miracles and heard his amazing knowledge of the bible come to life. You knew that this man knew more about the bible than the Priests who used the bible for their gain..  You were on that boat that one evening on the Sea of Galilee when panic broke out when the Sea became suddenly violent with waves so huge that you were convinced would capsize the boat and take every life on it until you saw Jesus actually walk on water and with only a few words this body of water went back to calmness.

Imagine if you will if you had made a commitment to follow Christ all the days of your life, but that life had taken it's toll on you and you sense that the very presence of God had fainted to a more distant one partly from all of your responsibilities and urgent things of life. Imagine you too are staring up on that cross as you witness the soldiers lift something up to his lips as though they were concern for his well being. Imagine to your horror when the man you grew to know called out the words " It it is finished" as he looked up to the heavens before dropping his head.

This is our Holy week.  It is what Christians celebrate because of yet another miracle he performed up on that cross. Christ completed his mission by overcoming death with his resurrection. It all comes home when on Easter morning the stoned was rolled away, but Christ wasn't there. He has risen. HE HAS RISEN!

Just as the verse above reminds us Jesus Christ promises to do with you as he did with his followers when in his public ministry. He promises that when the storms of life come that he will calm those storms. He promises that he will ride out those storms with you.  You may not sense his presence and at times you may feel abandoned and alone with your grief, but he is there every step of the way.

Jesus is only a short prayer away.  Won't you call out to the Savior today and thank him for all he did for you?  Even in our storms God is good.

In his public ministry Christ taught us that when storms come into our lives he will calm those storms.  In this video Ray Vander Laan is giving a lesson on the Sea of Galilee about the storms that come suddenly and what Jesus did to calm those storms.