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Left on our own, none of us would love God. In this lab, John Piper glories in the truth that love for God is a gift from God. God gives us the words of men and women throughout history who have poured out their hearts before him. Some were persecuted, suffering, and broken over sin; others were confused, angry, and bereaved. The cries of God’s saints in his word match each season of life we find ourselves in. God has given them to us to nourish us, and to pray them back to him. My home state, North Carolina, is bracing for destruction this weekend. Home Depot is out of generators, and Harris Teeter’s shelves are bare. Inland hotels are booked up, and flights west are full. Hurricane Florence is on the way. When I was 12, Hurricane Charley arrived during our annual beach vacation. I remember officials with bullhorns urging evacuation, neighbors nailing plywood to battered window frames, my father’s exasperation. We watched as the waves mounted, thundering onto shore. “We’re not going anywhere,” Dad announced. “We’ll wait it out.” The narrow highways climbing to safer ground were gridlocked with panicky tourists, but we were not among them. We waited, daughters dancing with the thrill of danger, mother pacing in anxious When you live in an area prone to hurricanes, praying against them can feel like you’re praying against the snow in Canada. Certainly an all-powerful God can forbid storms, tame the sea, melt the clouds, or cause the earth to rotate backward for a while. But he can also let nature take its course. Christians have a whole book full of miracles, but we know God doesn’t always do them. For every miracle there’s And still we pray. Here are three things to remember as we pray together in the midst of this storm. It’s hard, as skies grow black and clouds pile ever higher, to deny that we live at the mercy of great power. Those whose houses perch, stilt-legged, on the Outer Banks are perhaps more aware of it than land-lubbers, but even they can ignore the storms that pummel, say,