Deep water

Are you in deep water? Trials and fears beckoning at the door? The Bible is full of heroic accounts of men who faced more adversity than the average person in the way of personal struggles, and their stories are living examples of how each one endured with the help of God.

Like Job, David, Stephen, Paul, Daniel, Joseph and many other saints from old, they leave us examples of their individual trials that run from devastating hardship to temptation to even unjust persecution. Trapped in dire situations—even unto death—they maintained an abiding faith as they rested in the spiritual arms of God.

The faithful will sometimes be sifted and refined like choice silver and gold. It’s our test. Though like all of those before us, we are given hope that as they survived their trials to tell the tale–only through the power of God—we are able to as well.

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters – 2 Samuel 22:17

But there’s more… The future is secure and lends much hope for Christ followers. A new kingdom is coming one day. Not like this present earth—no, it will far surpass it. There will no longer be any deep water to drown us. The only water will be the fount of living water that flows through Christ from whom all blessings flow to us both now and throughout eternity.