Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. My name is Sochie Lixon. I'm sharing a beautiful

image of enduring hope in today's reading, hope cuts through storms. In the spring of 2021,

several storm chasers recorded videos and took photos of a rainbow next to a tornado in Texas.

In one video, long stalks of wheat in a field bent under the power of the whirling winds.

A brilliant rainbow cut across the gray skyline and arched toward the twister.

Bystanders in another video stood on the side of the road and watched the symbol of hope

standing firm beside the twisting funnel-shaped cloud.

In Psalm 107, the psalmist offers hope and encourages us to turn to God

during difficult times. He describes some who were in the middle of a storm at their wits' end.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.

God understands his children will sometimes struggle to feel hopeful when life feels like a storm.

We need reminders of his faithfulness, especially when the horizon looks dark and tumultuous. Whether our storms come as substantial obstacles

in our lives, as emotional turmoil, or as mental stress, God can still our storms to a whisper

and guide us to a place of refuge.

Though we may not experience relief in our preferred way or time,

we can trust God to keep the promises he's given in Scripture.

His enduring hope will cut through any storm.

Today's our daily bread

devotional scripture reading is from Psalm 107

verses 23 to 32.

Some went out on the sea and ships.

They were merchants on the mighty waters. They saw the works of the

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