Consider one of the lessons we can learn from Simon Peter’s experience.
Whatever happens in life, God can be trusted to care and provide. In Simon’s situation:
For us it means:
In his book Two Years Before the Mast, Charles Henry Dana told of his ship being hit by a night-time storm with him on watch. He described:
Then…suddenly:
He later wrote:
Nevertheless, to be a sailor meant, with his watch over, and the storm continuing to rage, he had to go below and sleep. He went below. He slept! If that’s true for a sailor in distress, it’s true for a Christian when life rages with meanness, imposing terrible trauma. We must in those times be at peace with God’s love. When we can say; when seeing trouble coming, “I trust in God, I will not be afraid” Psalm 56:4. We can also say; “When I am afraid, I will trust in you” Psalm 56:3, when adversity ambushes us. End Part III
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