Don’t Drift When we are caught in a crisis, we typically react in three ways. Because the sailors couldn’t head into the wind, “we gave way to it and were driven along” (Acts 27:15). The first thing that storms tend to do is to cause us to drift. We let go of our goals. We forget where we are headed. We forget our values and start drifting. Because they were not equipped with compasses and the stars were completely obscured by the storm, the sailors were in total darkness. When you are in a dark situation, you drift. The waves beat you back and forth, and you are led wherever they take you. Your problems batter you back and forth. Don’t Discard Things didn’t get any better on the apostle Paul’s voyage to Rome. We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard. — Acts 27:18 When a crisis emerges for us, first we start drifting, then we start discarding things from our lives. With the sailors it was first the cargo, then the shi...
An Ideal Christian Hub