Have you ever felt like your boat has been rocked? Maybe it is today. Maybe it is right now. The storms of life come along, sometimes very unexpectedly and our lives can be tossed about in murky water. Problems arise that we sometimes do not know how to fix. And they can come in all kinds of ways. Through depression, money problems, divorce, abuse and much more. I saw a program on tv yesterday about a woman that had married someone that she thought was her 'night in shining armor' as it were. They had only known each other for six months and then suddenly got married and just a few short months later, he began beating her. Her boat had been seriously rocked because he was her second husband. She had already been through it with the first. Now, here was the man that she thought was going to love her for the rest of her life, and her life was again being tossed about.
Surely she might have thought that she was drowning in her situation. And that is exactly how the devil wants us to feel. Like there is no hope. No help for us. And for many many people, if they weren't drinking or taking drugs before, maybe when those storms hit, they are now We might just as well give up because things are never going to get better. We sometimes spend our days in bed, having no desire to get up and do what we need to do. And in not getting up and doing those things, we not only make things miserable for ourselves, but for those that are around us.
Thankfully there is hope and there is help. And God is the number one source for that hope. There are so many scriptures in his word that gives us hope if we dare open our Bibles to let them saturate our very being. One of my very favorites is in Isaiah 40:31. But those that hope in the Lord, will renew their strength. They will soar like the eagles, they will run and not be weary and walk and not faint. But we need not stop there because there are many more that we can focus on during the storms that have come our way.
God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1. When we let him into our hearts and lives, he will reach down into the deep waters to pull us out and save us from drowning. He will light our way out of the darkness and set our feet on solid ground, keep us safe the whole way. He is our hope. And he is our help when we put our trust in him.
February 19, 2019 Promise: Give thanks to the Lord. His love endures forever. Psalm 136:1
I am blessed that you came by today Friends. Have a blessed day!
Most of us have felt like the boats of our lives have rocked. The storms of life come and all of a sudden, or maybe even gradually, we have slipped out of our boat into the water, drowning second by second.
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