How To Get Back To The Boat

My Utmost For His Highest

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” —Romans 8:35

“God does not keep His child immune from trouble; He promises, “I will be with him in trouble…” (Psalm 91:15). It doesn’t matter how real or intense the adversities may be; nothing can ever separate him from his relationship to God. “In all these things we are more than conquerors…” (Romans 8:37). Paul was not referring here to imaginary things, but to things that are dangerously real. And he said we are “super-victors” in the midst of them, not because of our own ingenuity, nor because of our courage, but because none of them affects our essential relationship with God in Jesus Christ. […] Never allow tribulations or the “cares of this world” to separate you from remembering that God loves you (Matthew 13:22). […] Either Jesus Christ is a deceiver, having deceived even Paul, or else some extraordinary thing happens to someone who holds on to the love of God when the odds are totally against him. Logic is silenced in the face of each of these things which come against him. Only one thing can account for it— the love of God in Christ Jesus. “Out of the wreck I rise” every time.” CHAMBERS

Do you believe that the Word of God is true?  Ok, do you believe it is true all of the time?  Does that seem like an odd question?  How can it be true part of the time?  Well it is true all of the time, but what makes it seem as though it is not always true is that we only put our faith in it and act upon it, part of the time.  Someone once said that only part of the Bible that you believe is the part you obey.  Think about it.  Do you remember Peter when Jesus spoke to him and told him to get out of the boat and come to Him on the sea?  Matthew 14:22-33  Peter was doing OK so long as he was looking at Jesus, but as soon as he took his eyes off of the Lord and looked at his circumstances … he was doing something that was humanly impossible … he began to sink.  Something most people look past is the verse 32 “And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down.”  Jesus and Peter walked on the water back to the boat,  in the midst of the stormy waves.  Jesus did not calm the sea to make it easier for Peter.  He walked with him.  

What are you facing today?  Illness, financial loss, heartache, disappointment, maybe the consequence of sin.  No “wave” is so big.  No sea is so rough. That God cannot and will not walk with you in it.   His Word is Truth.  All of it.  His promises are reliable.   But to realize it, you must walk in it by faith.  What God says defies the world’s wisdom … because it requires a supernatural understanding.  That understanding comes from the Spirit and is energized by obedience.  ELGIN

“O soul, are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There’s light for a look at the Savior, And life more abundant and free!   Turn your eyes upon Jesus.   Look full in His wonderful face.  And the things of earth will grow strangely dim.  In the light of His glory and grace.”

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)