In The Eye Of The Storm by Max Lucado

Author:Max Lucado
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian
Published: 2011-09-30T10:54:49+00:00

Your son’s accident was a blessing. His legs may be broken, but at least he is with you.

Our sons are gone forever.”

The old man spoke again. “It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. No one knows. Say only this: Your sons had to go to war, and mine did not.

No one knows if it is a blessing or a curse. No one is wise enough to know. Only God knows.”

The old man was right. We only have a fragment. Life’s mishaps and horrors are only a page out of a grand book. We must be slow about drawing conclusions. We must reserve judgment on life’s storms until we know the whole story.

I don’t know where the woodcutter learned his patience. Perhaps from another woodcutter in Galilee. For it was the Carpenter who said it best:

“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” He should know. He is the Author of our story. And he has already written the final chapter.

16 Laws of the Lighthouse

The first of the year is known for three things: black-eyed peas, bowl games, and lists. Some don’t eat black-eyed peas. Others hate football. But everybody likes lists.

Lists are reassuring. They comfort us. They suggest that the crazy, zooming, blooming chaos of the universe can be mastered and tamed within the cage of a tidy column. To list is to understand, solve, and even control. For that reason we can’t resist the urge, at the end of the year, to spew out lists like Washington, D.C. spews out documents.

We list the best movies … the best books … the worst dressed … the most used …

the least popular … the most mysterious … the highest paid. We salute the good. We satire the bad. And we sum up the year on lists—“end-list” lists.

Although New Year’s Day ranks at the top of the list of list-producing days, the rest of the year is by no means “list-less.”

• Your grocery list makes a trip to the market manageable.

• Your calendar probably has a “to do” space, where you organize and number things you’d like to do but probably won’t.

• Your syllabus tells you which books to buy.

• Your itinerary tells you which plane to take.

• Your telephone book tells you which numbers to dial.

The Bible certainly has its share of lists. Moses brought one down from the mountain.

Noah might have used one as he loaded the ark. Jesus gave a list of principles in the Sermon on the Mount. (Paul gave his version in Romans 12.) Matthew and Luke listed the genealogies of Jesus. John listed the splendors of heaven.

There are lists of the gifts of the Spirit. Lists of good fruit and bad. Lists of salutations and greetings. Even the disciples’ boat got into the action as it listed in the stormy Sea of Galilee. (If you smiled at that, then I’ve got a list of puns you’d enjoy.) But the greatest day of lists is still New Year’s Day. And the number one list is the list I call the Laws of the Lighthouse.

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