Some Storms Of Life We Bring On Ourselves

"Then The Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up."  Jonah 1:4 (NIV)
While running from The Lord, the prophet Jonah boarded a ship and set sail for Tarshish to flee from The Lord because he did not want to go to Nineveh and preach as the The Lord had told him. (Jonah 1:1-3)  So The Lord caused a great wind and a violent storm to occur that threatened the ship and the lives of all that were on board.

Today we refer to the bad times and trouble as the storms of life.  I has been said that if you are not currently going through a storm, then either you are just coming out of one or you are about to enter into one.  We all go through storms.  What we do not realize is that some of the storms that we endure, we bring on ourselves.  If we would obey The Word of God, then God would not have to punish us and our lives would be much more peaceful.