When you are in a difficult place, what are you holding onto?
Are you holding onto God’s Word or man’s word?
God’s Word is sure, reliable, trustworthy and dependable and that’s
what you should be holding onto.
In the book of Acts chapter twenty-seven we read a very interesting story.
Paul is imprisoned and is on his way to Rome because he appealed to Caesar.
They boarded a ship and reached a place called Fair Havens but instead of staying there
until the seas become a bit more calm the centurion decided to proceed with the journey.
Paul warned them that he could foresee loss of cargo and even loss of life.
But the centurion decided to listen to the captain of the ship which makes total
sense because the captain had experience and he probably sailed those seas hundreds of times.
But look at what happened when they listened to the captain’s advice,
“We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo
overboard. On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. When neither
sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope
of being saved.”
Acts 27:18-20
The captain’s advice was wrong even though he was the most experienced and even though
he probably sailed those seas hundreds of times.
As we face the storms of life we need to hold on to God’s Word over any other word.
That’s the only word that can and will get us through the storm.
Man’s word will fail and disappoint but not the Word of God.
After that Paul told all the men that an angel of the Lord appeared to him and told him that no
soul would be lost. Paul held on to the word of the Lord and encouraged the men to do so.
And what the angel spoke came to pass. There were no souls that were lost. Everyone reached land
safely.
“The rest were to get there on planks or on other pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached
land safely.”
Acts 27:44
We can depend on God’s Word because it is sure, trustworthy, reliable and dependable.
“Praise be to the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. Not one word
has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses.”
1 Kings 8:56
Bless you friends
Rolain
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