How
should I respond to difficult situations?
This
ship taking prisoners to Rome was in the middle of the Mediterranean ocean,
hadn’t seen the sun for 14 days, total darkness. And they can’t get any bearings, they don’t
know where the stars are, they have no idea where they are. So they gave up going to any destination and
started drifting. That’s what problems
tend to do in your life if you don’t watch out.
In Acts
27 and Paul’s story of being on a ship in a storm there are the some things you
shouldn’t do. They are the typical
things you tend to do when you go through difficulty:
First of all, Difficulties can cause us to drift. Verse 15 (NIV), “…so we gave way to it
and were driven along”.
This
ship taking prisoners to Rome was in the middle of the Mediterranean ocean,
hadn’t seen the sun for 14 days, total darkness. And they can’t get any bearings, they don’t
know where the stars are, they have no idea where they are. So they gave up going to any destination and
started drifting. That’s what problems
tend to do in your life if you don’t watch out.
Some
people start drifting through life. They
have no goal, objective, purpose, ambition, and dream for their life. They just go along to get along. Life is tough so why make the effort? Why even try?
I’ll just go by on the minimum.
We don’t
call it drifting today. We call it
coasting. The problem with coasting is
that you’re headed downhill. You never
coast uphill. You’re going the wrong
direction if you’re coasting. Life is
not a coast. Life’s tough. Don’t lose your goal, your ambition, your
dream just because life gets hard.
Just a
thought from the front porch…
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