June 5, 2014
As non-believer, it's like drowning in water. You're swimming and
everything seems to be ok. Then the water gets deep and you start treading
water. But after a while the water rises and it begins to over take you. You
quickly realize that you could drown. You find a buoy in the water and now you
feel that all will be ok. But how do you get back on dry land? So you jump back
in the water, you start panicking and try desperately to reach for a life
preserver. No buoy in sight. No life preserver in sight. "You can only tread
water for so long...."
As a believer, we live a Christ lead life. But we get comfortable. Life is
good. God is good. You feel like "YOU" have everything in control. But you don't
realize you're in quick sand. Quick sand is a slow death. You could be standing
on it and not realize that it's slowly pulling you down. Days, months, and
sometimes years go by and you slowly keep slipping down. Then one day you
realize that your shoulders deep in quick sand. Bankruptcy, divorce, problems at
work, they all seem to over power you. Yea, it seems like this came out of the
blue but you never realize that you've been in quick sand for a very long time.
The more you struggle the quicker it seems to take you down.
Both instances are the same for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He is
our life preserver. He saves you from the rushing waters of life and puts you on
safe ground He reaches deep into the quick sand and pulls you out of the sinking
sands. In both instances, it is up to us to realize that without HIM we can't
survive the struggles of this life.
"Acknowledge HIM in all your ways and HE will direct your path."
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