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You must learn to MAINTAIN YOUR JOY in the midst of the storm, or the storm will remain.
Sunday 3/21/2010

And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, It is a ghost! And they screamed out with fright. But instantly He spoke to them, saying, Take courage! I AM! Stop being afraid! —Matthew 14:26, 27

THE DISCIPLES STRUGGLED for hours in the dark but could not beat the storm that threatened to take their boat down. How true that is to your own life experience. You struggle so hard with your work and problems that you lose your joy and peace. Yet if you look up through the waves of problems you find Christ walking straight over them to save you. 

    The storm will pass if you take Him into your boat. Your peace will not give way if it is centered in Him. Indeed peace is not peace unless it remains in the midst of the storm. God promises to "fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith]" (Romans 15:13). The night may be dark and the waves real but Christ is greater than the storm.