Where are the bail buckets? They tried their best but it wasn't enough. More water coming in.
Meanwhile the Lord, was quietly asleep in the boat.
Lets not bother the teacher, He's tired; let Him rest. Keep on bailing or we'll go down! They soon found that the solution wasn't going to be bailing it was going to be God.
Indeed this is the night God almost died by drowning!
But for the quick thinking of someone in the crew all would have been lost!
When all else fails call on God!
As a result was one of the shortest and most meaningful prayers ever uttered!
"Lord save us ..." or we're all going down!
Too many of us, like those in the boat, have a God that has shrunk through the years to the size of the last resort ... A rather distant last resort God. When we're about to go under, then we cross our fingers and cry out!
"Lord save us!"
We've fallen for Benjamin Franklin's observation: God helps those who help themselves." Man's thinking exactly ... however for some reason God did not help them bail.
Sorry Benjamin, your statement is flawed.
Of the many lessons we can learn from this blustery venture, two stand out as primary;
Lesson one: Check the size of your God before you leave the shore! Lesson two: Never "take Jesus along" ... Follow Him!
My God is the Lord that stood facing the storm, and commanded the storm to stop! ... and it did. ~ Matthew: 8:25
