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The Scriptures we are studying today were spontaneously chosen only after I sat down to write this study. Since last Monday, I had every intention of writing about Psalm 46 and spent time researching the meaning of that magnificent “song” for these troubled times. Such a last-minute switch-out has never happened in the 42 previous volumes. Thus, my interpretation is that I am “supposed” to write about this famous phrase of scripture, which happens to be a political cliché, usually attributed to Abraham Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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One particular Bible story that speaks to the value of trust occurs in Matthew 8. Jesus is on board a boat with his disciples. He’s asleep, but the others or not and the text informs us that a severe storm is taking place. Somehow, Jesus’s rest remains undisturbed during the storm. The disciples, on the other hand, are panicking. They were worked into such a frenzy that they awoke Jesus.
“He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, you of little faith?’ Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.” (Matthew 8:26)