The past couple of days in South Florida have been stormy. I was downtown Miami picking up a table at a condo that sits next to Biscayne Bay, there was no rain at the time, but, the wind was fierce. It turned what is normally a very beautiful and calm body of water into a tumultuous and ravaging scene. The blueness of the water was replaced with murkiness as the sand and sediment churning up to the surface. Later on in the day it started down pouring and has continued all night and all day so far today.
Whenever it gets stormy like this the homeless search for shelter and it's really hard to locate them. In such dark and dismal conditions, they are all alone, wet, cold, hungry and depressed. All they want to do is be dry, eat something and feel secure.
When life in general gets stormy, all WE want to do is have shelter from the storm and feel secure. It's very comforting to have people come beside us in the hard times and just be there to share the moment. How much more if God is the one that comes to comfort us?
In Ezekiel 34:11-12 it says-
"For thus says the Lord God: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness."
Many times, as we've been given the opportunity to reach out to the homeless and hungry, we have been told that we were an answer to prayer, which seems weird. However, they say they had reached the end of their proverbial rope and cried out to God and we showed up with hot food, drinks, dry clothes or just a listening and compassionate ear.
Who, in your life, is going though a storm? Do you think God is telling you to do anything about it? How can you reach out to them, letting them know God loves them and has not left them?
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