God Is Enough for Every Storm You Face
It’s easy to assume we have fear, grief, or suffering figured out, only to stumble into a different kind of storm and realize how many layers of understanding still wait to be peeled back. In these times, we need to know that God is enough for every storm.
There are layers to hope as well.
Just when you start to believe in a deeper kind of hope, life often throws you a harder curveball than you ever expected.
You find yourself desperate for a deeper sense of understanding.
Hope in eternity feels too far away, and you need hope in something here and now.
You need hope that’s more palpable than the words you scribbled in a journal when you thought you knew what loss and pain entailed.
God Is Enough for Your Storm
I thought I knew all about hope when we went through a long year of loss and grief.
However, my understanding had to go deeper when the next year met us with even greater storms.
It met us like the dawn of a very different kind of day upon a lake we thought we understood, a place we thought we knew inside and out.
Sometimes, there’s simply no way of preparing for the season that falls upon your lap. The best you can do is take a deep breath and ask the Father to help you peel back another layer of understanding.
As we stepped into a new season of trust and faith, I found myself wrestling with everything I knew about how to have hope that can’t be shaken. I also discovered a remarkable truth: God is enough, and he carries me through every storm.
As we weathered our storm, God gave me hope. He lifted my head on the darkest days.
If you are in need of hope today, here are some truths to hold onto.
When You Need to Know That God Is Enough
1. You can trust that God is enough because lasting hope is personal.
Hebrews 6:19 reads, “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil” (NASB).
Let’s pause to examine the last six words of this verse: “hope which enters within the veil.”
Before Jesus died on the cross, a four-inch-thick curtain separated the holiest part of the Tabernacle from the rest of the structure. Only one priest entered this holy part of the Tabernacle (and only once every year).
The priest entered on behalf of God’s people to make atonement and pay the price for their sins. It has been said that he entered with a rope around his leg so that just in case the glory of God killed him, his body could be pulled out.
I’d been following Jesus for quite some time when I discovered one of the startling events that took place the moment Jesus died on the cross: The veil of the temple was torn in two!
God reached down and tore the veil when Jesus paid the price for our sins. He was showing us that the annual tradition of sending a priest to make atonement was over. He was inviting us all to enter the holiest place of a face-to-face relationship with him, all because Jesus made a way. This leads us to our second truth about holding onto hope:
2. God is enough because lasting hope involves face-to-face interaction.
When the bottom falls out from life, nothing short of face-to-face interaction with Living Hope will suffice.
Hope in Jesus is intimate, personal, and current.
It is for today.
He waits for you to run into his arms today, making hope about an eternal relationship that begins in the here and now (see John 17:3). The veil was torn. Your Living Hope invites you to draw near, and he stands with open arms.
3. God is enough because he is a secure place to fix your eyes.
Alexandar MacLaren writes, “Just as when a man’s eye is fixed upon the reddening dawn of the morning sky, all the trees and objects between him and it are toned down into one uniform blackness, so when we have that great light shining beyond the earthly horizon all the colours of the objects between us and it will be less garish, and they will dwindle into comparative insignificance.”
Jesus endured suffering by fixing his eyes on the joy set before him (see Hebrews 12:2).
Friend, Jesus is your ever-present source of joy. We overcome difficult circumstances by fixing our eyes on his ever-shining light instead of the hardships at hand.
4. God is an anchor outside your strength and human resources.
An anchor within the hull of a ship will serve no purpose in a raging storm. In the same way, hope fixed upon what I can control will falter when the hardest storms strike. We need to fix our hope in an anchor outside ourselves.
Albert Barnes writes, “Hope accomplishes for the soul the same thing which an anchor does for a ship. It makes it fast and secure. An anchor preserves a ship when the waves beat and the wind blows, and as long as the anchor holds, so long the ship is safe, and the mariner apprehends no danger.”
Christ is the anchor of stability and security in the storms of life. I am secure when I keep my eyes on his light, rest in Word, and seek his face continually. Share on XAre you facing a storm? Hold onto this promise: God is enough.
He offers lasting hope. Lasting hope has nothing to do with the circumstances surrounding you. We find lasting hope in Jesus. He promises to stay with us always. 
A Free Devotional to Help You Draw Near to the Lord
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Calling all moms and daughters—and parents of boys!
As the parent of two sons and a daughter, I have a heart for helping parents develop deeper relationships with their children and with God. Our kids, ages 6, 11, and 14, share this vision. They have helped me write three family devotionals for parents or grandparents to read with the children they care about.
God’s Warrior: Devotions for Boys Who Want to Grow in Courage and Strength is for boys ages 5-13. Now, more than ever, our world needs men who are willing to courageously carry God’s love into the world. Written with input from our two young sons, Aiden and Caleb, ages six and eleven, this book will help the boys you care about find courage and strength in God. Find this life-changing devotional book here.
Devotionals for Girls
Girl to Girl: 60 Mother-Daughter Devotions for a Closer Relationship and Deeper Faith is written for girls ages 7-12. It includes 60 devotions with Scripture, conversation starters, and a shared journaling section for moms and daughters after each devotion. I wrote this book with the help of our daughter, Bekah, when she was eleven. Find this one-of-a-kind shared devotional here.
Heart to Heart: A Mother-Daughter Devotional With 50 Devotions for Teen Girls is for teenage girls ages 13-20. It includes 50 devotions, each with a shared journaling section to help moms and daughters connect through writing. This is a great book for moms who want to communicate about awkward topics—like dating, sexuality, peer pressure, and more—but don’t know where to start. Bekah and I will help you right here.
All three books are available in print and eBook form here on Amazon. They are also free on the Kindle Unlimited plan, which you can enjoy with a free three-month trial! These books make great gifts, and you don’t need to be the parent of young children to read them. Share them with your grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or the young ones you love.
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