comingjoy
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When Someone Rocks Your Boat
By: comingjoy 4-15-07
I was sitting in my boat on a clear calm day. There was no breeze to speak of. I was just coasting along when the water started to become a bit choppy and rough. I couldn’t tell from which direction the wind came from but it was causing my calm to become bumpy, nothing to big but it was a bit of an annoyance. Then out of nowhere a hug wave hit causing me to hold tight so as not to be thrown over board. You see I started to ask questions hard questions. The answers to come were hard to hear. Just as I tried to grasp the situation another wave hit a little harder then before. My calm boat ride was becoming a ride of my life that I would never forget nor the questions that I had asked. Would I survive? I was being hit by one huge wave after another. A wave of disbelief a wave of shock a wave of confusion and of fear another wave of doubt and despair and a wave of rejection. With each new wave I found I had little to no time to catch my breath to breathe.
A gale force storm had come upon me with such quickness and force that I started to take on water and fast. I was unsure if I would be capsized or just sink. Each new wave brought me closer to the brink of death. One moment I am alone with God enjoying my time with Him like Peter walking towards Jesus on water, the next I couldn’t see Him just as Peter started to sink by looking at the storm around him instead of Christ. I was loosing ground fast and taking on a lot of water. I was so surprised by the onset and fierceness of the storm and the waves it brought that I couldn’t even paddle to shore or bail water to save myself.
Just like in a hurricane there is a calm in the middle of its storm. The first hit of trouble can come as a shock and or surprise catching you off guard. If you are not careful it can even take your life. If you can make it to the eye of the storm and catch your breath and regroup long enough and quick enough before the backside hits, you will stand a better chance in surviving.
I am now in the eye of my storm. I am regrouping, refocusing and reanchoring to the source of where my strength comes from, so no matter what hits I will come through the other side of the storm. My boat has taken on water and looks battered, beaten and ready to fall apart with the next wave that hits it. By looking at it you wouldn’t want to get in with me. You may even encourage me to jump ship. But this is a boat ride I must take and ride out to the end. I have taken on water and look like I could sink but the vessel I chose is one that can not nor will not sink or be sunk. No matter how much water it takes on or how fierce the waves pound it.
I may lose my lunch a few times in this storm and look worse for wear but if you wait around long enough you will see that I will come out on the other side of this storm. I may look beaten, battered, bloodied and bruised but I will come through breathing praise. You see that through this storm I have not been alone. You may not have seen or see the hand that has kept my boat from being capsized and shielded me from some of the waves has in fact held me close to Him. He has helped me to endure and by enduring this fierce storm I have been reshapened and strengthened only in ways that going through a storm can bring about.
So batten down the hatches. If you choose to walk in the light and take a boat ride, know that a storm is just but a horizon away ready to try to snatch you up and out. So hold on tight, believe and remember whose hand is holding yours, will not let go. You may feel as though someone is rocking your boat and your trying not to throw up. Its okay throw up, scream and cry out, but hold on. The lessons learned that come from coming out on the other side are worth it. Stay in the boat and keep your focus on the prize. IF you will allow God to bring you through the storm what comes out on the other side is more like Christ and less like us.
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
By: comingjoy 4-15-07
I was sitting in my boat on a clear calm day. There was no breeze to speak of. I was just coasting along when the water started to become a bit choppy and rough. I couldn’t tell from which direction the wind came from but it was causing my calm to become bumpy, nothing to big but it was a bit of an annoyance. Then out of nowhere a hug wave hit causing me to hold tight so as not to be thrown over board. You see I started to ask questions hard questions. The answers to come were hard to hear. Just as I tried to grasp the situation another wave hit a little harder then before. My calm boat ride was becoming a ride of my life that I would never forget nor the questions that I had asked. Would I survive? I was being hit by one huge wave after another. A wave of disbelief a wave of shock a wave of confusion and of fear another wave of doubt and despair and a wave of rejection. With each new wave I found I had little to no time to catch my breath to breathe.
A gale force storm had come upon me with such quickness and force that I started to take on water and fast. I was unsure if I would be capsized or just sink. Each new wave brought me closer to the brink of death. One moment I am alone with God enjoying my time with Him like Peter walking towards Jesus on water, the next I couldn’t see Him just as Peter started to sink by looking at the storm around him instead of Christ. I was loosing ground fast and taking on a lot of water. I was so surprised by the onset and fierceness of the storm and the waves it brought that I couldn’t even paddle to shore or bail water to save myself.
Just like in a hurricane there is a calm in the middle of its storm. The first hit of trouble can come as a shock and or surprise catching you off guard. If you are not careful it can even take your life. If you can make it to the eye of the storm and catch your breath and regroup long enough and quick enough before the backside hits, you will stand a better chance in surviving.
I am now in the eye of my storm. I am regrouping, refocusing and reanchoring to the source of where my strength comes from, so no matter what hits I will come through the other side of the storm. My boat has taken on water and looks battered, beaten and ready to fall apart with the next wave that hits it. By looking at it you wouldn’t want to get in with me. You may even encourage me to jump ship. But this is a boat ride I must take and ride out to the end. I have taken on water and look like I could sink but the vessel I chose is one that can not nor will not sink or be sunk. No matter how much water it takes on or how fierce the waves pound it.
I may lose my lunch a few times in this storm and look worse for wear but if you wait around long enough you will see that I will come out on the other side of this storm. I may look beaten, battered, bloodied and bruised but I will come through breathing praise. You see that through this storm I have not been alone. You may not have seen or see the hand that has kept my boat from being capsized and shielded me from some of the waves has in fact held me close to Him. He has helped me to endure and by enduring this fierce storm I have been reshapened and strengthened only in ways that going through a storm can bring about.
So batten down the hatches. If you choose to walk in the light and take a boat ride, know that a storm is just but a horizon away ready to try to snatch you up and out. So hold on tight, believe and remember whose hand is holding yours, will not let go. You may feel as though someone is rocking your boat and your trying not to throw up. Its okay throw up, scream and cry out, but hold on. The lessons learned that come from coming out on the other side are worth it. Stay in the boat and keep your focus on the prize. IF you will allow God to bring you through the storm what comes out on the other side is more like Christ and less like us.
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
