How Loud Is Your Faith?

How Loud Is Your Faith?
By Scott Harrup | April 3, 2009

Our home in Sierra Leone was built of concrete block and had a roof of corrugated aluminum sheeting. During the wet season, that metal roof amplified the pounding rain like a giant drum on many a thunder-filled afternoon and evening. If you wanted to really ramp up the decibels, you could walk upstairs into the attic that ran the length of the house. There, each deluge was deafening.

And yet, the noise was also strangely comforting. I think, because the house was built well and the roof was firmly anchored to the rafters, that the tin din served as a reminder that the storm was “out there” and we were warm and dry “in here.”

Sometimes life’s noise can feel deafening. Stuff is coming at you—on the job, in your home, from your family and friends and unfriendlies—so fast you can hardly hear yourself think. That’s a good time to breathe a prayer and remember that God won’t abandon you. His love waits for your faith to call out to Him.

“Turn your ear to me,” the Psalmist pleaded. “Come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me” (Psalm 31:2, NIV).

In other words, “God, please remind me that You really are standing there between my circumstances and me.”

With that reminder, the rain can pound all day.

Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner