Are you in the boat?

Question to think about: When do you get into the boat?

An individual told me that she and many of her friends often use their cell phones to record moments throughout the day and night. We talked about the need to be mindful of people's privacy. It made me think. What if people were able to access and record all of my private thoughts, words, and actions throughout the day? What would be found?

With technology advances . . . it isn't out of the realm of reality to be able to access our private life. The thing is . . . there is nothing hidden from God. Nothing.
Thoughts are known.
Words are heard.
Actions are seen.
Even so, there is a lack of awareness of the presence of God. The disciples did what we often do:
The disciples separated themselves from Christ, God with us. They got into the boat and left without Christ. A storm came. Jesus walked on the stormy seas and approached the boat.
[However] when they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat. And they were afraid (terrified). But Jesus said to them, It is I; be not afraid! [I AM; stop being frightened!](John 6:19-20, Amplified)

The disciples left . . . God knew what they were doing.
The disciples were in a storm . . . God knew their exact position . . . in the darkness . . . in the stormy seas.
We perceive we are alone.
We fail to invite God into our thoughts, words, and actions. You might say we get into the boat without Christ.
And . . . then a storm comes.
Fear comes when we separate from the presence of God.
We experience aloneness, emotional pain, stress, distress, depression, and oppression from fear.
God is present.
God knows exactly where we are mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. God comes to us in our need.

Stop.
Ask God to reveal the thoughts, words, and actions that you have put in the boat without the presence of Christ, God with us.
Wait on God.


Learning with you to wait rather than to get into the boat,
Shalom,
Kerrie
(All devotions written by Kerrie Palmer ©2009 All Rights Reserved)