Luke chapter 8. Luke chapter 8. I'm going to read our text which is in verses 22 through 25. Now it came to pass on a certain day. that he went into a ship with his disciples. And he said unto them, let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. But as they sailed, he fell asleep. And there came down a storm of wind on the lake. And they were filled with water and were in jeopardy. And they came to him and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we perish. Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm. And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they, being afraid, wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this? For he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him. Now, in many ways this account is a rather poetic picture. And it describes, what I mean is that it describes the life of believers. And it describes our journey, our voyage with our Lord and our Savior. And the lessons that we learn here from this passage that are taught here to the disciples, these lessons are lessons that we're taught from the first day we see Jesus, the light of God, to the day that He brings us home to Himself. And He said to us, we hear His voice, He calls us by name, He goes before us and we follow Him. And He says to us, let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. When He calls us, we launch forth with our Lord and our Savior. So I wanna show you, before we get into this, another scripture, companion scripture, I think, in Psalm 107. And when you get to 107, just put a marker there, because we'll come back to it throughout this message. Psalm 107, and we'll pick up in verse 23, and just read a couple verses here. The psalmist writes, They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these, these see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. And this brethren is exactly true of you who trust your very soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. The most precious thing you have is your soul. And you that believe Christ are trusting everything into his hand to provide for you, to keep you, to care for you, to protect you, to deliver you. We're trusting Christ with the most precious thing that we have, our soul. And we, he says, see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. So I want to give you, I want to show you seven lessons, seven lessons that are taught the people of God here in this voyage over the sea, till the Lord brings us home. Seven lessons. Now for our first lesson, it's that our God is sovereign. We are to learn and understand that our God is sovereign. Notice that this event takes place on a certain day. A certain day. And whenever we read that word, a certain something or a certain someone, like a certain centurion or a certain Samaritan, we know that our God's sovereign hand is moving according to purpose. according to purpose. It's, he's intending to bring our mind, our thoughts to understand something's going on here that I might quickly just pass on by and not recognize or not take notice of, but he's telling me it's a certain, a certain day this happened. Romans 8, 28 says, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to purpose. Our God's purpose. And our God is telling us, trust me, all things, all things work together for good, for my people, all things. And many purposeful things go unnoticed by us, yet our Lord is saying, whether you notice them or not, all things are working together for good according to the purpose of God, to those who love Him. And we love Him because He first loved us. He has a gracious purpose for His people. And in this account, What we're to see here is that our Lord, He's in perfect, sovereign control throughout the whole thing. Even though He's described as having fallen asleep, He is in control of everything. And you can be certain that your God is in control of everything, every detail happening in your life. Even those providences that seem contrary to us, And those providences that are difficult for us to bear and understand, even those, he says, they're working together for your good. You that love me according to my purpose. And he's showing us this to trust him. And the scriptures tell us repeatedly how the Lord careth for us. that we're to cast all our care upon him because he does care for you. And he does care for the troubles and the difficulties and the oppositions coming against you. He knows and he trusts. And rather, entrust him that it's for your good, for your good, brethren. And so James 1 verse 17 says, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." That's the first lesson. God is sovereign. This happened on a certain day, a day that he chose and called his disciples into the ship with him. The second lesson is that the disciples of Christ were never alone. He never departs from us. He doesn't leave us to ourselves. We're never left alone. Luke tells us that He went into the ship with His disciples. He went into that ship with His disciples. Luke says they launched forth. Christ and His disciples, they together launched forth across the lake. He didn't send them off on their own, He went with them. And that's because the Lord has shown us that we're in union, eternal union with our Lord. He's the husband of His church. We're together with the Lord. We are His people. He brought us into union with Himself so that we are members of His body. It just says your body is a member with your head. And so we are the members of Christ's body. We're one with him. We're in union with our Lord. And so whatever place we find ourselves in in this life, our Lord is with his people in spirit through faith. He's with us in spirit through faith. When he gave his disciples that great commission before he rose to the Father, and he gave him the commission to preach the gospel, he assured his church of his presence, saying, Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. And that's comforting. That's comforting for the church today, and as long as we go on this world, that's a comfort to the Lord's people, that he's with us till the end of the world. He's not leaving us. And so, He doesn't leave his church ever. He doesn't separate himself from his members. And he certainly doesn't leave us when times begin to get difficult. He doesn't disappear on us when times get difficult. Matthew tells us, and when he was entered into the ship, his disciples followed him. And what that tells us is that our Lord goes before us. He goes before us. Anything we endure, our Lord has endured Himself. And He knows the sufferings. It's not like He can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He knows our infirmities. He understands what we're going through. He purposely came in the flesh and bore our sorrows and suffering to obtain our eternal redemption and that He might minister peace to our hearts and comfort us in a way that we understand and receive that and is meaningful to us. And so our Lord gives us His word that He's always going to be with you that believe Him, that trust Him. He's with you. He's given you that faith. He's given you that belief and that trust and confidence in Him. He's not going to leave you. And read with me, turn over to John 14. Let me show you a few scriptures on this. John 14, and we're gonna pick up in verse 26. We'll just read two verses there, 26 and 27. So he tells us that he gives us the Comforter. He says, but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace, I leave with you. My peace, I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. And so our Savior has accomplished our salvation. He's redeemed his people with his own blood, and he's gone before us through the veil and has made for us an everlasting place so that when he returns, he'll take us to be forever with the Lord in that place. And so he's gone before us and he sends us the Holy Spirit who reveals and manifests the love of Christ in us to know him, to have an understanding of our God, to know that he's sovereign, to know that he's in control of all things. You've probably met some people like this in life. I have, and they've endured some tragedy. Perhaps losing a child, and that's very difficult to bear for a parent. I can't imagine how awful that is. And the way they comfort themselves is with a lie, saying that God isn't in control of all things. Well, that's more terrifying to me than knowing that God is in control of all things, and that nothing can take from us or strip us of anything outside of God's control. If it's taken, it's because our God has done it, and he's done it for our good, to bring us to the feet of Christ, to know our need of him, and to find his sufficiency to meet our need. Turn over to Ephesians chapter three. Ephesians 3 verse 17 and following, our Lord adds this blessing of understanding to us. Paul writes that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. And that word passeth, knowledge, means that our Lord, what He gives us is to know that His love far exceeds the knowledge and understanding that we have. And He gives that to His people. He reveals His love for us. And the preciousness of His love. I'm gonna show you one more. Look at Philippians 4. Philippians chapter 4. And let's look at verse 6 and 7. Be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Now, I'm not a Greek scholar, but I have some tools. And I looked up those words, passeth here, passeth all understanding, and back in Ephesians 3, where it says passeth all knowledge. And they're different words, but they both start with that prefix hyper, which means to go over and above there. And what it's saying there is that here the peace of God it surpasses all understanding. So that what our Lord is saying is that we don't have to know everything. We don't have to understand everything that happens and why it happens. When God gives you peace in your heart to trust Him, to believe Him, in spite of the fact that you may not know or understand why a certain thing happened, but when He gives you peace in your heart that you're His, and that He loves you, and that He's provided for you, then we don't need to know all the details. We don't need all knowledge and all understanding. We're blessed to have incredible light to know that the scriptures are revealing to us Christ the Savior, the salvation of God. And it's a blessing, however, to have the peace of God revealed, shed in our hearts, So that even though I don't know all things, and there's a lot that I don't understand, and I don't always have the right words to say to my brethren in need. But I know the Lord Jesus Christ, and I know how precious he is. And that peace that he gives in the hearts of his people, I'd rather have that peace. than to know all mysteries in the universe. I would much rather have the peace of my God through the Lord Jesus Christ than know everything and understand all mysteries. And that's what he's saying. And so that peace that he gives us, because he brings his children to trust him. And that's what He's doing here with the disciples here. He's bringing them to trust Him and lean on Him and know that He is Sovereign God, has everything in His control. He's doing all things for our good and He's with us. He's with us and that's what He's revealing. That creates great trust and great comfort in the true and living God because by nature Man does not trust God. Once Adam ate that fruit and his eyes were opened, he fled from the voice that walked in the garden in the cool of the day. And that voice, the word of God, is Christ. He fled from Christ. And so you that are drawn to Christ, that's grace. That is grace upon grace that God should call you into fellowship and union with himself. that's far better than the riches of this world and it's far better to have that peace that Christ has paid the price and made me his son or his daughter and brought me and made me his child and brought me into union with him is far better than all the other things that this world pursues and goes after. Far better. And it's easy to say. I understand. It's easy to say that. But that's what he does. Through this voyage, he teaches us, trust me. I provide for you. I've got it all in my hand. Believe me. Believe me. And so our Lord, he says to us, as he said to his disciples, let us go over onto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. And so our Lord is doing that. He's with us and bringing us over the sea of life here. Now the third lesson is that even though we are believers in Jesus Christ and we seek to obey our Lord, we seek to obey His word, we want to honor Him with our lives, our decisions, and what we do, our Lord is showing us that we still suffer trials. They went with their Lord. They followed Him into the ship. And then this great trial came down, this storm of wind came down upon them in their obedience, in their obedience to the Lord. So just because you're suffering doesn't mean that you're being disobedient and getting a spanking from the Lord. No, not at all. He's still, he's drawing you nearer to himself to learn of his grace and mercy for you in his darling son, Jesus Christ. And so we experience suffering, which our Lord uses to teach us his grace, right? And back in Psalm 107, 24, that verse was, these, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. Those that are with him in the ship, they see the wonders of the Lord. Those on the land who aren't in the ship with Christ, they don't see the wonders of the Lord. But you do, you do, you that believe him. And so we, the Lord brings us into deep waters on purpose, on purpose. There's another place in John six that says he constrained them to get in the boat. He can strain them, and so our Lord is the one in control. He puts his people in the ship to teach them and to reveal himself to them in wonders of glory, wonders of grace that we see him. And so we read in verse 23, Luke 8, 23. But as they sailed, he fell asleep. And we'll come back to that in the next point. But there came down a storm of wind on the lake. And they were filled with water and were in jeopardy. So Luke calls it a storm of wind. I think Matthew calls it a tempest. And Mark also says it was a great wind, a great wind. And any one of us who's been through storms, and sometimes wind storms, And I can just go around the corner sometimes and see trees and limbs, giant things falling over. And my yard maybe just had a few branches, thankfully. But we've seen wind. And if you've been through a hurricane or you've been just living here in Missouri, I've never seen wind like this except once in Pennsylvania. But yeah, you see some fierce winds that come through and they are destructive. When a fierce wind hits your structure, it can blow them over, it can take off roofs, it can take whole structures and throw them. Big vehicles, and what was it, in Iowa, I think they had another straight line wind 500 miles long and it just leveled all the grain. And so what we see from wind storms, they can be very destructive. And they can take out things that we're trusting, things that give us comfort and peace and joy and make us feel okay. in this life. And then that windstorm comes down and poof! Just blows it away. Just knocks it away. And so windstorms can be very destructive. And if something that we feel we need gets taken out, we can feel just like these disciples in jeopardy. I'm in trouble. Now things are going to start falling apart. What's going to happen? And we get put into difficult positions like that in windstorms. And things just whip up. And that sense is that it's just coming. It's hitting them from different directions, all these different directions. And it's really affecting them, and they're afraid. They think this is it. You know, at least four of the men there in that ship with them were fishermen who knew this lake. I think Luke calls it Lake Gennesaret, but Matthew and Mark, I think it's Sea of Galilee. John is the Sea of Tiberias, but it's the same sea, and they knew this sea. They knew how this sea was, and they, being very familiar, having gone through storms, knew we're in jeopardy. This is not going to end well. We're out in the middle of the sea, and here comes this windstorm, and we're in deep waters, and we're going down. And so the Lord shows us here that just because we believe Him, it's not necessarily that we're being disobedient. It's not because we're even being chastened necessarily, though He will refine the preciousness of faith which he gives to his people. He'll refine that, and he'll refine those gifts that he gives to his people through the storms, but that's, you know, we go through them and we think, I've been through a lot, and I think I can handle a lot, and then, but the Lord knows exactly how to touch us in such a way that we're shaken again. And we're undone suddenly again. And we think, we thought, I thought I was beyond that. I thought I wasn't going to be troubled again. And I thought that wouldn't bother me anymore. But it does. Because the Lord knows exactly how to bring it in such a way that it touches us in a way to bring us to our knees. I might think I'm humble. But then the Lord does something, and I find I wasn't as humble as I thought I was. I'm even lower now. I have a lot more to learn and a lot more lower that I can go. And it's only by His grace that I'm not lower. It's His hand keeping us. But when the time comes, when it's for our good, He brings it. He brings that windstorm to take us down. And so the Lord brings it, and it's always for our good. When you're drawn to the Lord, through the windstorm. That's the preciousness of the Lord doing that for you. If you're separated from the Lord, then you never were His. But if you're the Lord's, He actually draws you through these windstorms nearer to Himself. Isaiah 40, verse 7, it's perhaps a little different, but I think there's quite a relation here. Isaiah 40, verse 7, the grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it. Surely the people is grass. And so our Lord, what we need, He brings and He withers this flesh by the wind of His mouth. And He strips us down and brings us low in ourselves so that we can confess with Paul in Philippians 3, 3, brethren, we're the circumcision which have no confidence in the flesh. But I didn't always think like that. And I still find I have plenty of confidence in the flesh that I ought not to have, but he strips it away in measure for our good to see that he's all my confidence. Because otherwise, I just figure things out and get myself out of trouble. And I don't learn anything in those things. But I learn a lot when the Lord brings me to the end of my rope, so to speak. And so our Lord shows us that's not all suffering. Suffering is not necessarily bad. Our Lord suffered for us. He suffered in the flesh to the point where he gave his life for us. He laid down his life for us. And Paul, he spoke of how much the Lord called him to suffer for us. Now, we're not necessarily called to that same level of suffering, but we do suffer, and it's for our good. Turn with me to Romans 8. Let me show you this in Romans 8. Let's go to verse 14. And I want you to see this, that it's his children that he brings suffering to. those that are his children, those that are precious to him, he will bring them into suffering. Now he says in verse 14, for as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. They're the sons of God and your God is making you to know that you're his son and his daughter. If you're his son and daughter, he's going to make you to know this. He's going to reveal it again and again and again. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. We cry out. The way your children cry out to you, we cry out to the Father. Lord, save me. Lord, help me. Lord, where are you? I'm in darkness, Lord. I'm scared. Where are you? And so this is what our Lord's teaching us through many storms, many wind storms, to cry to him for his salvation, for his help. Verse 16, the spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and join heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. That's peace that passeth all knowledge. That's peace that passeth understanding. Because we maybe don't understand how we can even be so confident in the Lord. When we're faced with just being wiped out by the windstorm, and yet the Lord gives us that comfort and that peace in spite of what we know in our minds, in our carnal minds. He makes us to know the peace of Christ. And so our sufferings are given to us to cause us to seek Christ through the experience, that we might know his grace and his power. Now, the fourth lesson is related to the last. But our God, we see here, tries and proves that faith that he's given to us. We're told that as they sailed, he fell asleep. And that's when the storm arose. when he was asleep. So that trouble came, and what it's teaching us there is he didn't immediately silence it. He knew it was coming. He brought them into the ship, and he didn't immediately silence it for them. It was his being asleep that brought them to that feeling of, we're in jeopardy. We're going down, and he's asleep. He's not answering us. He doesn't know what's going on. He's just comfortably snoring away. And we're going down. We're going down. And it shows us that our God doesn't always answer us right away. And he does it that way to grow us, to show us the things that only those in the deep waters are brought to see with the Lord. He does it that way. Had he prevented them from ever being touched by that storm, they wouldn't have learned the things that they learned this day. This wouldn't even be recorded in the scriptures for us. We wouldn't even know that it happened if he just silenced it right away. But they were brought to the end of their limit. They were afraid. Look back at Psalm 107. Psalm 107, now let's go to verse 25 through 27. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven. They go down again to the depths. Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wit's end. That's how we feel oftentimes in the windstorm. And sometimes we're elated and lifted up on a mountaintop and before we know it, way down in the valley and we're struggling again and we're afraid. But those times are made precious to us because that's when we cry out to the Lord and beg Him to draw near to us. And so again, these are the people that see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. You know, oftentimes we pray, Lord, I want to see your glory. I want to see your power. Well, when that's your prayer, he'll show it to you, but it's going to often be through the windstorm and through hard times. He'll give it to you in grace, in grace. He doesn't always give us what we think we need. He gives us what we do need, and He keeps us and provides for us. But yeah, if you wanna see the Lord's power, you wanna be brought to the end of yourself, and sometimes we pray for things, and we think we're ready for things like that, and we get a taste of the deep waters and the windstorm, and we see just how fragile we are, just how much we need Him, and how sufficient He is. Romans 5 verse 3 through 5 says, And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. And so they're given for our good, brethren. Now fifth, the fifth lesson brings us to the greatest lesson that any man or woman could ever experience, could ever come to know in this life, and that is to know and to lean on the Lord Jesus Christ for all our salvation. Do not come to Him with anything that we've done, trusting in those things, but to be emptied of ourselves, to trust wholly upon Him to save us, because that's salvation, rather, and that's what He brings us to do. Verse 24 says, and they came to Him, so Luke 8, 24, they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, Master, Master, we perish. Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm. And so this is what our Lord does for us through the fiery temptations, through the fiery trials and the manifold temptations. He brings us through these things. And what he's doing here is that he's teaching us to pray. Because the hardest thing I've ever found in my flesh to do is to pray. That's the hardest thing, is to pray. To actually stop what I'm doing, and to hit my knees and to just pray. Because otherwise, it's good to pray without ceasing. As you're going about the day and praying for your brethren and praying for various things, but there's times where we just need to stop. Because otherwise, we're kind of in it and not in it, and we're still doing, we're still talking, we're still trying to work through the problem ourselves, we're still trying to handle it and fix it and mitigate things and worrying, but to just stop. Stop what you're doing and just, Lord, I really can't do this. I need you, Lord, to do this. I need your grace. I need your salvation. And it's a rare thing to pray in the Spirit. even. It's a rare thing. It's good to pray, and pray regularly, but a lot of times our thoughts are distracted, and we get interrupted, and it just... And then there's a few times, you can probably count them on one or two hands, where you believe the Lord really was with you, and helped you to pray in spirit, and that He heard you, and you just know the Lord was in it, the Lord was in it. But he calls us, he says, pray to me. You seek me for these things. And we confess there and at that moment when we stop moving and stop talking and stop doing things, trying to work through it, and we just confess, Lord, I need you. And we thank him for the trial. We thank him for hearing us, because he doesn't need to. He doesn't owe us anything. He's God. But we thank him. for hearing us. We thank Him for bringing us to our knees there to pray to Him. And then we ask Him, Lord, Lord, I need you. I really need you here, Lord. I need your grace. I need your help. You say you're with me. Lord, I need to I need your presence, Lord, and I need your hand. I need you to help me and to save me and to deliver me. And that's how our fears are quieted. We see it right here. When they went to Christ, that's where all their fears were quieted. Master, master, we perish. All right, and he arose, and he resolved the thing. He brought it to an end. Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm. The winds and waves ceased, and the fear and the tempest in the hearts of the disciples ceased as well. He brought it to an end, and they ceased. And just as believers are taught this repeatedly, this verse also gives us a picture of how our Lord saves His people. He brings His people to the end of themselves. He brings us to see that I have nothing to give to the Lord, nothing to bargain with, nothing to give to Him for my salvation. And that's who He saves, empty, worthless, vile sinners who have nothing to give to Him, nothing to barter with, nothing to trade. He freely forgives His people, all who ask Him. If you ask Him, it's because He brought you to that on a certain day. in the day of grace when he purposed to be merciful and gracious to you. And so that's another picture there as well as how the Lord saves his people. Not because we have something to partner with him and work out with him. No, he saves people who cannot save themselves. So that's what he's bringing us to see. And back in Psalm 107, verse 28 and 29, Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Now, the sixth lesson we see is, again, related to the last point. But our Lord asked them, where is your faith? And that's a personal question. We should hear that question asked to us. That's a personal question to me. That's a personal question to you. Where is your faith? And our Lord teaches us a lot as we think on that question before the Lord. Lord, where is my faith? Lord, help me. Lord, keep me. Why do I doubt so much? Why do I not believe so often? Why am I so forgetful? The Lord teaches us. But I'll say this one thing. We're never told what the disciples said. I doubt they said anything. We're never told what they said, and yet the Lord always, because that's not the only time he's ever asked him a question like this, but he's so quick to forgive. Because he delights in mercy. He saves not because we say anything or know what to say. I think that's why we don't see them saying much in reply, because otherwise we try to repeat it and think that was our salvation. But we don't know, because we don't need to know. The Lord is merciful to us for His own mercy's sake, for Christ's sake. And He's going to work that out in us. We're going to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, as it says. That is, Christ is going to be brought home to our hearts. We're going to know Him, that He's my Savior. And I don't know what you said, but I know how He's broken me and brought me low on myself and caused me to cry out to Him and beg Him for mercy. And that's what He does for each one of us. That's why I think it doesn't tell us what they responded. This is not our business. But it's a question for each one of us who trust the Lord. Where is your faith? And the seventh lesson our Lord teaches us is that Christ our Savior is omnipotent God. He's omnipotent God, all-powerful God. Luke 8, 25, and he said unto them, where is your faith? And they, being afraid, wondered, saying one to another, what manner of man is this? For he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him. And so this, brethren, is your sovereign God and Savior, the God-man mediator. God robed in flesh that he might be the fit, perfect sacrifice for his people to lay down his life for his people, to obtain eternal redemption for us. And he must be holy divine, perfect divinity, God Almighty, to accomplish an eternal redemption for us. He commandeth even the winds and water so that everything, what that's saying there is everything that comes upon us that troubles the sinner, that brings a sinner into fear and bondage and darkness, to sin in themselves, we're brought to see that it's our Lord, God himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, that delivers us from that bondage. He's the one that heals us. He's the one that calls us into the light of himself. He's the one that takes us out of the prison and brings us into his presence. He brings us out of it. And so he's the one that brings all his children, his poor children, into the ship with him. And so if you're going through windstorms, it's because Christ is revealing himself to you. He said, come, let us go over to the other side of the lake. and they launch forth. You're with the Lord and the blessing is you see the works of the Lord in deep waters. You see these precious things. Psalm 107, 30 and 31, Then are they glad because they be quiet. So he bringeth them unto their desired haven. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. Praise God, give him all the glory for his wonderful works. And he does it for our good to bring us to seek him, to cry out to him and to know him in peace and in grace and mercy, amen.