 And if Jesus doesn't calm the storms of my life, what does that mean about me? Does it mean that God doesn't love me? Does it mean that God is still angry with me? And so this teaching, which sounds comforting at first, and there's some truth to it because he can calm the storms of our lives, it can actually lead to great despair. Furthermore, it's just not really the point of this text. The basic point of this text is,