“Praised be God, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation! He comforts us in all our afflictions and thus enables us to comfort those who are in trouble with the same consolation we have received from Him.”
(2 Cor. 1:3-4)
“Praised be God, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation! He comforts us in all our afflictions and thus enables us to comfort those who are in trouble with the same consolation we have received from Him.”
(2 Cor. 1:3-4)
“Who
can this be that the wind and the sea obey Him”? (Mark 4:41)
Daily, news media updates us with extraordinary weather disasters across the United States that range from wildfires to flooding, tornadoes to hurricanes and from heat domes to large hail stones. People are being hurt and dying, property is being destroyed and such vast areas are affected that may never be able to be restored even with the help of federal funds.
Two thousand years ago the itinerant preacher known as Jesus, son of Joseph, the carpenter, and his wife, Mary, lived a simple life in a rural area of Galilee in northern Israel. Fishing and agriculture were the two main industries. It should be no surprise that Jesus talked to the people in this time about interests of which they were familiar, but we are not.
“Sin speaks to the wicked man in his heart; there is no dread of God before his eyes, for he beguiles himself with the thoughts that his guilt will not be found out or hated.” Psalm 36:2-3