God’s wonderful deeds of the deep
by Kathy Matuschka
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They saw the works of the Lord, his wonderful deeds in the deep (Psalm 107:24).
There are no seeds or agriculture in the reading today, but the imagery is still intricately connected with nature. The psalmist recalls the stories of sailors who have safely returned from sailing in treacherous conditions and encountered and recognised God’s presence in the storms.
While the Lord stirred up the tempest (verse 25), it is also the Lord who responded to their cry for help (verse 28), ‘stilled the storm to a whisper’ (verse 29) and guided the sailors home (verse 30).
Life has its storms, and we can never fully prepare for a storm we haven’t encountered before. We do well to develop our faithful practices, such as reading God’s word, receiving the sacraments, praying and staying in Christian fellowship during times of calm so that they are familiar companions during the storms.
In the storms and the troughs, we learn that God is always, always, underneath us. As we encounter the limits of our own resources, we learn to submit to the transformation that God’s Holy Spirit would work within us. When we cannot see the horizon or even imagine that we will ever see it again, we learn to trust the One who knows and sees all things. Slowly, we learn to trust the process of dying so that we can live and learn other mysteries of God’s kingdom.
Dear loving God, help me to join the psalmist in acclaiming your ‘wonderful deeds in the deep’. I pray for those I know who are experiencing stormy times at the moment so that they will also know you are underneath them. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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