Storms I Never See

There's a song that's sung by one of our favorite Southern Gospel groups called, "Storms I Never See". The person is thanking the Lord for all these different things, then prays, "Lord, I'm also grateful for the storms I never see."

This morning in our college Sunday School class, before class actually started, we got to talking briefly about dangerous experiences. One of my college friends told how, when they were younger, they had been riding a four-wheeler and didn't see the zip-line wire in front of them. It caught them right across the throat. The wire was tight and they were not going slow, either.

That situation could have turned tragic very easily.
Yet the Lord chose to give protection.

How merciful the Lord was!! He spared this friend a terrible death. He spared their family a horrendous loss.
He spared me, and others who have come to know, love, and grow from the friendship of this dear young person now.
Who knows what many other lives He spared, that will be touched by this Godly individual in the future?

How many nightmares has the Lord protected us from, that we don't ever know about? How many ways has He kept something from happening, years ago even, that - if it had happened - would have made our lives radically different? How many things do we take for granted because we've just gotten used to them being there, and don't realize, the Lord could have taken those things from us before we ever HAD them! And we forget to thank Him for the storms we never see.