This weekend I will be speaking from Acts 27. This one of the most dramatic stories found in the New Testament. In this narrative the Apostle Paul finds himself at the mercy of a misguided merchant ship. If it wasn't enough for him to be a prisoner, he now faces immediate peril at sea.
Life has a way of placing us in circumstances that we would avoid if we could. Storms sometimes are just unavoidable. It's one thing to watch something happen to other people. It's quite another thing to be caught by surprise in the very eye of a storm.
My younger brother lives in Minneapolis. My sister-in-law is a doctor there. Yesterday she was on call at the ER at the hospital where she works. She was one of two physicians on the floor when the bridge collapsed in that city. 35 victims were rushed to their hospital. It was a day that would have shown well on ER. Happily, all the victims there survived their injuries.
We never know what life will brings. We truly are not in control. We make our plans, but they are subject to change. How we navigate through the storms is the true test of our character.
In what places in your life are storms brewing? How are you handling it?
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