Cushion of the sea...

Ok, ok, ok......so I'm not very good at this blog thing. My intentions are good but I get busy and just forget to write.

Today I want to share with you a devotion that describes what the Scriptures refer to as "peace that passes all human understanding." I found it to be simply amazing and decided I would include it in this blog. The devotion goes......There is what is called "the cushion of the sea." Down beneath the surface that is agitated by storms and driven about with winds, there is a part of the sea that is never stirred. When we dredge the bottom and bring up the remains of animal and vegetable life, we find that they give evidence of not having been disturbed in the least, for hundreds and thousands of years. The peace of God is that eternal calm which, like the cushion of the sea, lies far too deep down to be reached by any external trouble and disturbance; and he who enters into the presence of God, becomes partaker of that undisturbed and undisturbable calm. -- Dr. A. T. Pierson

Anyone that knows me very well, knows I have experienced some very stressful things in my adult life. Things that brought me to my knees, (and I don't mean in prayer) but in utter fear. Fear that, in the beginning, overwhelmed me and overshadowed the help I knew was there. That help was The Cross and I had to find my way back to that place of calm assurance. How did I get so unbelievably lost in this darkness? Why couldn't I find what I SO needed? Where was my Heavenly Father? I was SO afraid! Without writing a novel, I can say with such thankfulness, I DID find my way back and on my journey, experienced this undisturbable calm and peace that passes all understanding. How do I know what I experienced was that God given peace? Because I couldn't explain it with words! Any explanation I thought about giving, simply made no sense. That's when I knew it was from God and oh how beautiful that realization was! My prayer is that you will not stop until you find your "cushion of the sea." Then and only then, will you truly understand. Goodnight and God bless............