Related concept: Kindness and Severity
Storms happen; but we do not have to be consumed by them.
- Peter quotes from Proverbs asking, “If it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?” (1 Pet 4:18; Prov 11:31)
- Noah and his family survived a worldwide flood
- God sent angels to safely escort Lot and his family out of Sodom just before it was destroyed.
- In Ps 23, David speaks of “walking through the valley of the shadow of death” while “fearing no evil” (Ps 23:4)
- Isaiah says…
- “You have been…A refuge from the storm” and more (Is 25:4)
- “The recompense of God will come, But He will save you” (Is 35:4)
- Jeremiah says…
- “O Lord…my refuge in the day of distress” (Jer 16:19)
- “You are my refuge in the day of disaster” (Jer 17:17)
- Nahum speaks of “taking refuge in Him” during “the day of trouble” (Nah 1:7)
- Habakkuk prays, “in wrath remember mercy” (Hab 3:2)
- Zephaniah speaks of being “hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger” (Zeph 2:3)
The Duty of a Man 