Thought 189
Fear
Will you let fear
control you?
Can you stop it from
controlling you without clinging to Christ the Redeemer? (No)
Just as day was
dawning, Paul urged everyone to eat. "You have been so worried that you
haven't touched food for two weeks," he said. Acts 27:33 (NLT)
Have you noticed the
word suspense anywhere recently? It
is on bill boards, movie promos, etc… What is suspense? Well it is anxiousness,
an “on-the-edge-of-your-seat” experience, it is a FEAR. Fear of a storm kept
these men in Acts 27 from eating for two weeks! The suspense was on for quite a
while! Based on what human survival experts say you can only live for 3 to 5
days without anything to eat and if you just consume fluids you can
last around sixty days, but you become very, very weak; yet they hadn’t eaten
in two weeks! Euroclydon had struck
their lives.
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous
wind, called
Euroclydon. Acts 27:14 (KJV)
Did you catch that
word? Euroclydon. I urge you to
remember that word.
I once was in a Frontiersman Camping
Fellowship (FCF) service in which the man preaching taught on Euroclydon. Euroclydon is an intense storm, the most feared by the sailors of
Paul’s day. The speaker said that he knew boys that where going through
Euroclydon—the most intense storm of their lives. Remember that this great
storm was feared by so many, yet Paul, a man of God, was there with the
unbelievers at this time and he encouraged the people to settle down and eat
somthing. He was also able to offer hope because the Holy Spirit spoke to him
concerning the outcome of the their destinies. Be the man or woman of God you
are called to be. In the hard times, just take life second by second, because
that is all we can endure—we are not called to worry about the future, that is
sin.
Amen.
May God bless you as you are fighting the good fight and running the race set
before you.
