Wading Deep
In a few days we will be leaving for our annual trip to South Carolina. We have gone to the same spot since I was little, returning to the memory again and again.
Perhaps one of the questions I hear the most is "What about the sharks?" I tell people that the most afraid you'll ever be is when you're sitting at home. When you walk to the water's edge, perhaps there is a bit of apprehension. But as soon as the waves engulf you, there is no fear left - it's all been washed away.
Maybe it's the same thing as when God says "Return to Me, and I will return to you..." (Malachi 3:7) Maybe the most scared you'll ever be of the great unknown depths of God is when you're seated in your spiritual rocking chair.
But when we're comfortable where we are is when we're in the most danger.
Somehow, you just don't realize that until you're in the middle of the dark, when your biggest fears are swirling around you and threatening to damage you.
Faith is not being tough. Peace is not the absence of trouble.....
But the presence of Christ.
That's the kind of truth that binds up broken hearts, redeems relationships, and turns sickness on its head.
"...The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power." (1 Cor. 4:20)
If God leads you into a storm, then the safest place you can be is in the eye of that storm, because you'll never be closer to God anywhere else.
This is God's truth for our souls.
Perhaps one of the questions I hear the most is "What about the sharks?" I tell people that the most afraid you'll ever be is when you're sitting at home. When you walk to the water's edge, perhaps there is a bit of apprehension. But as soon as the waves engulf you, there is no fear left - it's all been washed away.
Maybe it's the same thing as when God says "Return to Me, and I will return to you..." (Malachi 3:7) Maybe the most scared you'll ever be of the great unknown depths of God is when you're seated in your spiritual rocking chair.
But when we're comfortable where we are is when we're in the most danger.
Somehow, you just don't realize that until you're in the middle of the dark, when your biggest fears are swirling around you and threatening to damage you.
Faith is not being tough. Peace is not the absence of trouble.....
But the presence of Christ.
That's the kind of truth that binds up broken hearts, redeems relationships, and turns sickness on its head.
"...The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power." (1 Cor. 4:20)
If God leads you into a storm, then the safest place you can be is in the eye of that storm, because you'll never be closer to God anywhere else.
This is God's truth for our souls.
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