Howdy Church? If you've got your Bibles, grab them. We're going to be in Mark

Chapter 4. Again, like I mentioned yesterday, the Lord has just laid upon my heart to just share

some devotional thoughts with you. It's very casual. They're not very well prepared, but part of the way that I think as one of your pastors that I could love and lead well is just sharing some thoughts and some, particularly some places in scripture that the Lord keeps leading me to as I navigate these times with my family and my friends.

So in Mark chapter 4, the same account can be found in Matthew chapter 8 and also Luke

chapter 8, where Jesus calms a storm.

And so we'll pick it up in verse 36, 35, sorry.

God's word says, and on that day, when evening had come,

Jesus said to them,

let us go across to the other side.

And leaving the crowd,

they took with them in the boat.

And just as he was,

and the other boats were with them,

and a great windstorm arose.

I don't have ever been to the Sea of Galilee. A few hundred of our folks have. I've been there

several times. Was there a few weeks ago. And one of the things that's interesting there is that

Galilee wraps all around the sea of Galilee.

And so for these men to hop into a boat, and even though it's called the sea, it's really just like a big lake,

and to just row to the other side, it was just another normal day.

Now, sometimes winds and waves and tragedy comes into our life, but we can see it coming.

And that takes one way to handle it, right? Like in Florida here, when we know the hurricanes

are coming, we know for a long time. We have plenty of time to prepare. We have plenty of time to board up.

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