Getting Ready To Crash?

I recently listened to Christine Caine share about the power of our faith through a storm. I loved her analogy. Just as Paul was in prison, many people think they are in prison. We do not get to choose our prison but we get to choose what kind of prisoner we want to be - metaphorically speaking. We can be a prisoner of hope, anger, loss or fear. Paul started sharing the gospel after he went to prison.

Acts 27: 15, "Before very long, a wind of hurricane force, called the Northeaster, swept down from the island." Now you think of being in that boat, back then, during a hurricane! Words like difficult, dangerous and violent were used to describe being on that cargo ship. Things were so bad that they had to throw their "money" over board. All hope abandoned. It was so dark they could not see the stars or sun. Dark! We feel this way some time.

They could see the rocks and they knew they were going to crash into them. They wanted to jump ship. At times we also think we are getting ready to crash and would love to jump ship but we walk by faith, not sight. By sight, we see the rocks but we don't see God. Our faith, growing all the time, tells us that God is going to save us. He see's the rocks and He already has a plan. Isaiah 55: 8, "'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord. " In the midst of the storm we are to give thanks like Paul did. Acts 27: 35, "After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all." Acts 27: 44, "In this way everyone reached land safely." All were brought safely to land. Our answer, provision, hope is not in the ship. It is in Jesus!