Our minds don’t always work very well when they are under duress. Our emotions can overwhelm us and our instincts become unreliable. Just when we are most needy, we become most vulnerable—vulnerable to making poor decisions and acting in ways that are unwise or even unbiblical.
I was recently pondering Luke’s account of a ship in a great storm—an account that sees his ship (and Paul’s) driven across the Mediterranean until it is wrecked off the coast of Malta (see Acts 27). I pondered Paul’s actions in the storm and came to four principles that can guide all of us when we are in times of great fear and great distress.
Remember that you belong to God. I am struck that as Paul recounts the vision God gave him, he speaks of “the God to whom I belong.” There are many ways to describe your relationship with God, but maybe none is more precious than this: You belong to God. You are his. You are his by creation because he made you. You are his by salvation because he saved you. You are his by sonship because he adopted you. You are
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