Is Your Life a Shipwreck? - Acts 27:1-44

Sometimes life's difficulties and challenges bring us to the brink of giving up hope?  It does seem that God will often allow us to get to this point in our lives, the place where we are humbled and on our knees and looking up to Him  It is often the only way God has our attention; our willingness to surrender to Him and His way.

When reading this story in Acts I was reminded of Jonah and the big trouble he found himself in because he was headstrong and wanted to things his way.  It took a big storm and an even bigger fish to cause Jonah to give up control to God

"Before very long, a wind of hurricane force, called the Northeaster, swept down from the island. The ship was caught by the storm and could not head into the wind; so we gave way to it and were driven along. We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved. (Acts 27:15, 18, 20)
Paul was on the same page as God in this story; it was the other characters in the story who needed to see a Great Big God in action.  This storm was one that would have ended in disaster any other time, but this time God sent an Angel to Paul who told him no one would be lost, only the ship would be destroyed.

We will have seasons when our life feels like a shipwreck, but if we take a lesson from Jonah and Paul and turn to God giving up our agendas, it will eventually be smooth sailing.

Read the Acts 27:1-44 text here.