Growing like a goldfish

What a devastating time for Japan right now.  To experience a massive earthquake and then to watch a wall of water come at you.  For those of us who have never experienced anything like that it's hard to comprehend.  My heart and prayers go out to all the victims. 

I'm listening to a song called Facedown.  The words are "I'll fall face down as your Glory shines around".  As nature's outburst of destruction takes place I am brought to my knees to think of what it would be like to stand under God's wrath.

We don't like to think of God as Judge who requires justice for sin.  We like to think that He is always there to help us in our time of need and want Him to be quiet till we need Him again.  That's wrong.

The infinitely glorious Son of God endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God so that I wouldn't have to. Jesus then through his magnificent Power came back from the dead and is seated at the right hand of God interceding for me-for me!!! That is a Saviour worth trusting in. 

I am in no way proclaiming that God causes devastating destruction on people to get their attention. 

I am just taking what happened this week and putting myself into a future situation and thanking God for my solution.
Can you imagine standing onshore as a thousand foot tsunami came at you- not of water but of fury? 
What can one possibly say or do to quell such wrath? 

I envision myself in a bubble of God's Love and Mercy protected from this tsunami not because I'm so wonderful, but because Jesus came to me and helped me to see my precarious situation. I'm needy, sinful and helpless in creating my own solution!

The question I think of is: Do I live in this protection daily or run out from underneath it every now and then?
I read this morning about Joseph being sold into slavery BY HIS BROTHERS and imprisoned for no wrong he did .  Thirteen years later God restored him to the ultimate position.  Thirteen years-that's a long time to wait in an uncomfortable bubble.  I have so much to learn!

I dare not carelessly take for granted God's gift of Salvation for when I THINK that tsunami will happen, but learn to live "in Christ" and "conform to the image of Christ" daily.  
Just like a goldfish will grow to the size of it's container I want to conform to my container, The Holy Spirit.