"Shelter From The Storm"

"I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest." (Psalms 55:8) Sometimes the wilderness, no matter how familiar it might be, can become a vary stormy place; you go from dealing with circumstance and people that hate you, to dealing with nature and bad weather; at least when you have a home, you have a place to take shelter and rest. That is one thing that Jesus did not have, a home where He could take time to rest and find shelter, as you and I would in our comfortable homes. His home was not of this earth, so having a place of comfort here was not something that He even considered. Maybe that explains His ability to sleep so well in the boat, while His disciples feared for their lives (Mark 4:38), He was dreaming of being home, and the storm was nothing compared to what was up ahead at the cross. The cross would be the real storm, not some waves upon the water, which He could control with just a word; but the real storm He must face ahead provided no shelter, only death would be His relief from what was ahead. I am sure that David was remembering his days out there in the wilderness, when the storms would come, he would 'hasten' his escape into a nearby cave which he had already prepared for such an event; it was not like he did not know what to do when the weather got nasty, because preparation for such an event makes the cave so much more comfortable and inviting. If you though yesterday's post was weird, I am sorry, but I have always wanted to be able to just live free from all of this stuff; from this comfortable stuff that takes all of my energy to keep, and consumes most of my time just to preserve it; and for what? just to have it left behind for someone else to be stuck with, for someone else to be burdened with? And then again, it might all be temporary, but it sure does make me comfortable...
"There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to hurt. But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?" (Ecclesiastes 5:13-16)