God is Sovereign and Directing the course of Hurricanes and Storms! Luke 8:22-25

God is Sovereign and Directing the course of Hurricanes and Storms!

In Impending Hurricanes and Storms approaching, Rest assure of this one Fact: God is Sovereign and in Control and His providential watch Care is over His Children; therefore, Flee to Him while He may be found for Refuge, Safety and Security! Cry out to Him in a Spirit of Repentance and Find Jesus to Calm the real and impending danger of waves, winds, rains, the Storms, and Hurricanes, and know He also will calm the storms and hurricanes of life too! May God's grace and peace be upon all who call on the name of the Lord in humility, Truth and in the Righteousness of Jesus, Amen!

All Power and authority has been given unto Jesus, He is Risen, Ascended in Heaven and Sits at the Right Hand of  God the Father! He is Sovereign over the universe! Who is this who can calm the Storms and Hurricances? Indeed, Our Mighty God and Sovereign King who is mighty to Save and controls the Elements of the Universe, In Him all things hold together and In Him the Purpose of God's Divine will is truly fulfilled, flee to Him and find Him for Safety this day of His Providential will from Hurricane Sandy's fury!

Luke 8:22-25: "22 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. 23 As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.

24 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”

He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. 25 “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples.

In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

My God, My God Why has Thou Forsaken Me! Psalm 22

Psalm 22:1 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

A Psalm of David in his deepest despair felt of being forsakenness from His God, yet clinged to God, by crying "My God, My God" the seeming forsakenness by God due to his distressing circumstances made him fall in the pit of despair; Yet, during David's Despair, he was indeed prophesying of a Greater despair of  Forsakenness: of The Only Begotten Son of God, while hanging on the cross, in His humanity, subjected to being despised  and being mocked by on lookers; The human experience of Jesus' Circumstance of hanging on the cross, feeling physical pain and suffering, His life blood being drained from Him while hanging on the cross, indeed cried out, Matthew 27:46 "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli,Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Yet beyond Jesus' Physical pain and suffering, there was another Forsakenness did He ever experience, in His Divine Nature, did He experience a great Forsakenness by God the Father! When you consider that from eternity past, did God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit ever enjoy their eternal fellowship within their Triune relationship. At that point, touch down in History, was time ever so dreadful for both God the Father and God the Son, to redeem all those whom God the Father Gave to God the Son in eternity past, was the great length, depth and width that God the Son was willing to endure to be broken in bringing many sons to Glory! Yet it was a dreadful and painful forsakenness that God the Father experienced too! That He would cause the Heavy weight of His Divine Holy Justice and wrath fall all at once on God the Son that Jesus would drink of the Cup on behalf of those whom the Father gave before the foundation of the world; He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God, Indeed!    
2 Corinthians 5:21 "God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God".

Yet at the same time, all at once was the wrath God's Divine Justice ever Satisfied in the Shed blood of His only begotten Son! Hebrews 2:17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Yet during the ninth hour of Jesus' cry being forsaken while drinking of the Cup of God's Wrath, did He declare great victory and Hope indeed, when on the cross He Cried, it is finished! John 19: 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." Notice: the physical Drink was put to His lips, only after God the Son Drank of the bitter Drink of the cup of God's Wrath on behalf of God's children!

The Declaration of Victory on the Cross is indeed seen in Jesus declaration of "it is finished" And also, the declaration of God the Son's trust in God the Father's loving relationship is declared in Jesus' Last words on the Cross:

Luke 23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

This is just a glimmer, a great mystery that I am still confounded of the sufferings of the Eternal Son of God endured, all for me in God's great love that He would give His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life! John 3:16

Moralism intrudes when we forget Grace! Ephesians 2:8-10

Moralism intrudes when we forget Grace! Ephesians 2:8-10

Saved By Grace, through faith--and that not of yourself, lest any man should boast—Moralism can intrude on the life of the believer at the point when they forget Grace and the merits of Christ and seek to strive to please God in their own efforts and merits without relying on the Blood of Christ for their positional standing of Justification and progressive dependence on the Holy Spirit for Sanctification; not by works indeed, lest any man should boast! JV

Ephesians 2:8-10 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.