Rising Water

February 19

We’ve all feared at times that we’d gotten into a matter that was beyond our ability to navigate successfully. The winds and waves of the storm we found swirling around us were blowing us off course; they were blinding us to our direction and diminishing our hope for attaining the success toward which we hoped to be moving.

Perhaps we purchased stock in a company that sounded promising but it failed in a tumultuous economy. Maybe we trusted a lover who proved to be unworthy of our trust. Perhaps we sought spiritual counsel from a non-traditional source and found ourselves ensnared in the duplicitous clutches of a charlatan. It could be that we’ve made so many wrong turns that we don’t trust our judgment any more.

At these times, when we are overwhelmed by our circumstances and our inability to rightly assess them, let alone control them, the Word of God has an answer. In Psalm 69:1-2, we discover that we are not alone in our dilemma. Here the psalmist says, “Save me, O God, for the water has risen to my head. I have sunk in deep mire and there is no footing for me.”

When we are overcome by our circumstances, when the bark of our life is awash in a tumultuous sea of difficulty, it is then—when we are at the end of our own resources, when we know we are incapable of helping ourselves—that we may turn with confidence to Jesus! He is the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, and at His feet we will find the guidance, the help, the strength we so desperately need to right our course.