So there is this excerpt from a book I remember reading when I was younger about the story of a farmer and a young farmhand titled “I can sleep when the wind blows.” It made me think of a story of Jesus in the bible in Mark 4: 35-40 where Jesus was asleep while traveling in a boat with his disciples. As he was sleeping, a storm suddenly hit, sending the disciples into a state of fear and panic. The disciples, shouting in fear woke Jesus up, then without hesitation, He rebuked the waves and quieted the wind. Then Jesus asked the disciples, “Why are you afraid. Do you still have no faith?” After this, the disciples asked each other in amazement, “Who is this? “Even the wind and waves obey him!”

What I love about this passage is that Jesus wasn’t fearful of the wind because He knew who created the wind, nor was He unsettled by the waves, because He knew who created the waves. He could sleep comfortably because He fully rested in God’s promise that He will never fail us or leave us. God has already done the work as seen in the book of Genesis. He is the creator of all things, so our aggravation at His presumed stillness is misguided. God’s not still because he doesn’t care. God is still because he’s standing right beside us as a confirmation of his word.

So we see that our storms are only as big as the fear we have of them. Or, they are only as bad as the faith we put into them.

If you have time today, I urge you to google search a video excerpt or the written version of “I Can Sleep When the Wind Blows.”