Just Keep Swimming

A few weeks back, there was a terrible hailstorm that began while I was driving home from work. There was big hail, lightning, intense rain, and terrible winds. As I have mentioned before, I drive an hour each way to work so I wasn't escaping this storm quickly and I was not even half way through my drive when it began. I pulled over at first and figured I would wait it out. But then I realized I was just a sitting duck if I stayed there. So, with my blinkers on and my foot hovering over the brake, I began driving again. I kept repeating "you will never leave me. nothing can harm me. no one can harm me" over and over out loud and finally, 20 minutes later, I was out of it with the sun shining down on me.

I was extremely grateful and relieved, but became even more grateful when I saw later that a huge tree fell over the whole road only 30 minutes after I passed the spot. Not only was I not hurt by that tree, but more importantly I wasn't stuck sitting in the hour or more of traffic that it caused by blocking the road when all I wanted was to be home.

That was two weeks ago and, to be honest, I haven't thought about it much since then... until this afternoon.

I was driving home and doing all of my best thinking and realized how that scary drive is extremely similar to our relationship with God. "How does that work?" you may ask...

Often times, when difficult and tough things come our way in life, we are so tempted to just take a time out and give up. Although not even trying to tackle the challenges is the most stress-free route, what we should do is attack the trials head on with God as our guide.

Although it is going to be scary and we're going to want to just give up, it's so worth it. As long as we trust in God and have a constant dialogue with Him, we can make it through anything. If we stop trusting in God and listening to God, or take a time-out, our promised end goal may get pushed back or we make hinder what great things are coming our way.