When God Sleeps

How good is it to know that we serve a God who never sleeps? I mean, that's pretty awesome! We can rest, we can have peace because the One who controls the universe never sleeps, He is constantly watching over us.

However, there have definitely been times in my life when I have felt like God was sleeping, like He didn't care about my situation, or that He was ignoring me. If you read in the fourth chapter of the book of Mark, you will find a story where Jesus was actually sleeping. He had spent a long day preaching to the multitudes and He was on a ship with His disciples. He had gone to the bottom of the ship to rest when a great storm came. The winds were fierce and the waves were crashing into the ship and Jesus was no where to be found. Basically, the disciples were freaking out.

So they went and found Jesus asleep in the bottom of the ship and woke him up. They asked Him why he hadn't stopped the storm. Did He not care that they were all going to die? You know what Jesus said? He said "Peace be still" and the wind ceased. The waves stopped crashing. Everything was calm. Then He asked His disciples a simple question: Why did you have no faith in me?

Seriously, how many times do we find ourselves in the middle of life's storms questioning God, worrying that He is asleep, that He isn't going to take care of us, when in reality, even if He was asleep He still has everything under control. All He has to do is say "Peace" to our situation and it will be over! EVEN WHEN HE WAS ASLEEP HE WAS IN CONTROL!!! What on earth would make us think He is not looking out for us?

So the story goes on and there the disciples are and Jesus, God of the universe, has just calmed the storm and kind of threw it back in their face. Who were they to doubt Him? And you know what the disciples said? They said, "what manner of man is this that even the wind and sea obey Him?"

Sometimes I would like to go back in time and really get inside the disciples head. I mean what were they thinking when they asked that question? You would think they would know who God was I mean they had seen him calm the storm, heal lepers, raise the dead, cast demons out of people, and all manner of things. And they still asked who He was.
Isn't it great to know who God is!!!! To know that He is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, the Healer of the sick, the One who calms our every storm! The disciples couldn't really seem to get that fact in their head, but we can! And when we do not trust God that He will take care of our situations then we are acting as though we do not know who He is! My challenge to everyone who reads this post is to live as though you know who God is, because He is exactly who we think He is! Trust Him that He always has our every situation under control!