Sing To The Storm

Sing To The Storm


The thunder would come rolling down the mountains, landing like huge boulders right in the center of the little West Virginia town. As the winds whipped waves of trees into a fearsome frenzy and the New River rose to near flood levels just a few yards away, a little girl sought comfort from her mother, Mary, raised in the hills and wise in the ways of the Lord...

Mary had come to know the love of Jesus as a girl of 17, and for the next 60 years she learned to express her faith best in her praise.She praised the Lord in song as she prayed for food to feed her 7 hungry children. She praised the Lord in song when the news came that her beloved mother had been killed in an auto accident. And she praised Him again the day the doctor told her that there was no way the baby she was carrying could survive. So five years later, when that same baby cried,
�Mama, I�m scared!�, it was no surprise when Mary told her littlest child�

�Sing to the storm, honey. Sing to the storm and you won�t feel afraid anymore.�

So a tiny girl dragged a big rocking chair over to face the mountain behind their home and sang praises to the Lord till the thunder was gone away. And she always felt
�more better� as she sang.

What was true a half-century ago is still true today. The trials of life roll in with thunder and fury. The bible teaches us many things we can do to obtain God�s protection and provision in our time of need, but often the first need we have is deliverance from our fear. For that kind of help, nothing is better than praise.

The bible says: �The Lord inhabits the praises of His people�� and wherever the Lord�s presence dwells, there comes a supernatural peace. As Mary proved God�s word to be true through �many dangers, toils and snares�, her youngest daughter, Becky, my dear wife, is now proving God faithful in her own life. May the Lord remind us all to declare His praises in the midst of the storms in our lives and may He inhabit our praise and comfort us with His peace that passes all understanding.


�Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still�
Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!�
- Psalm 107:28-31