For I Believe

Acts 27:25

"Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for

I believe God, that it shall be

even as it was told to me."

       
         By this time they had lost all control of the ship. She was drifting, broadside on, across the waters and they could not tell where they were. They cast out the anchors from the stern to slacken the drifting speed of the ship in order to prevent being cast on the rocks, that they could not see. It was then that Paul took the action of a commander. The sailors planned to sail away in the small boat that they let down with ropes, into the sea, which would have been quite useless for two hundred and seventy-six people. Then Paul speaks, "The ship's company must sink or swim together.' Next comes a most human and suggestive episode. Paul insisted that they should eat. He was a visionary man of God; but he was also an intensely practical man. He had not the slightest doubt that God would do his part but he also knew that they must do theirs. Paul was not one of those people who "were so heavenly minded that they were of no earthly use." He knew that hungry men are not efficient men; and so he gathered the ship's company around him and made them eat. 
        As we read, these Scriptures, there seems to come a strange calm. The man of God has somehow made others sure that God is in charge of things. The most useful people in the world are those who, being themselves calm, bring to others the secret of confidence. Paul was like that; and every follower of Jesus ought to be steadfast when others are in turmoil.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Acts 27:13-38)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry