You have to ask, where is God in all of this? Thousands of persons without their homes, hundreds of thousands displaced and many dead. Really, what is happening around us?
Why is it that God does not stop all of this? These questions have to be in the mind of every Christian. When looking in the Psalms, you find some interesting scriptures about waves.

Psalm 65:7 …”who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves.”

I know that God can and will calm the waves. He does still the roaring of the seas. Of the thirty-five miracles of Jesus, nine of them have to do with authority over nature. He is the one who stills the roaring of the seas. Many have called upon the name of the Lord in the midst of the storm, and He has answered them.

Another scripture to consider is Psalm 88:7: “Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
and You overwhelm me with all your waves.”

This is the first verse in the scripture which presents the wrath of God along with waves.
Jesus kept the disciples in the middle of the Sea of Galilee for nine hours struggling against the waves, for their hearts were hardened (see Mark 6:52).

Could the wrath of God be present in Hurricane Katrina? I hope not. I believe in a God of grace who is willing and able to save in these days.

Even so, Psalm 107:25 says, “…He commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.”

Yes, God can command the sea to roar and He can raise the wind. When our lives and our sin come to his nostrils as evil and idolatry, we might experience His waves. Is this not right?

However, today I want my God to do something about these hurricanes. I want Him to be that God of Psalm 107:29…”He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.”

The God of Jeremiah 31:34-35 needs to be present these days in New Orleans:

“And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Thus says the LORD, “Who gives the sun for light by day? And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night; Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar? The LORD of hosts is His name.”