Don't Focus on the Wrecked Ship

Acts 27:22, ESV [Paul speaking]

Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Paul was a prisoner on a ship bound for Rome, and God told him the ship was about to wreck. 

But the shipwreck was not going to take their lives.

Sometimes we get so focused on the ship that wrecked—the ship that crumbled to pieces after we tried so hard to hold it all together—that we forget about the fact that we didn’t lose our life.

Our ship might have wrecked, but we survived.

Our ship might have wrecked, but God has purpose for us in the place we’ve landed.

Our ship might have wrecked, but God’s got another one waiting for us in the next season.

If your ship is about to wreck today, take heart—you’re not going to go down with it.

If your ship has already wrecked, then take heart—God has purpose for you where you’re at. You’re not stranded, you’re stationed.

And God has another ship ready when the season is right. 

Oh Lord, thank you that there is always hope when we know you. Please help us to focus on the life at hand and the purpose ahead—not on the wreckage behind. Amen.