During a violent storm one evening, several years ago, a mother felt rather anxious, about her little boy upstairs. She ran up to see if the thunder and rain had alarmed him, when, what was her surprise to behold the little fellow standing upright in bed in full view of the window!
The lightning flashed in quick and sudden brightness, the thunder rolled and rumbled, the rain seemed to slash the window as if endeavoring to break it, but the child was quite calm.
Looking round as his mother entered the room, he said,
“Mamma, when will the Lord Jesus say, ‘Peace, be still?’”
His dear mother took her darling in her arms and gave him an affectionate kiss. She had been reading to her little ones that day about the Lord Jesus stilling the wild waves of the sea of Galilee, and she was delighted to find that her little son had remembered and believed what she had read.
Thus the word of a child, as it has often done, told of the calmness that is linked with simple faith in God’s Word, and it helped the mother to trust afresh in the mighty Lord who is ever watching over His own.
ML 03/15/1936