WE HAVE A LIFELINE

Hebrews 6:19 NLT This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.

As we were walking along the seafront on holiday this past week there were lifebelts strategically placed in case anyone fell in the sea and needed rescuing, and I thought how God’s word is our lifeline, our lifebelt of truth. Are we wearing our lifebelt?

When we enter rough seas in life we need to know we have a lifeline, and that God is holding the other end of it! We have a mighty God who knows how to deliver and rescue us and Jesus Himself is our Lifeboat! When we’re in His lifeboat we know we’re safe.😊

As we walked along we saw trainee yachtsmen who were deliberately capsizing their little yachts to practice popping them back up again! Some struggled to do it but there were others on hand to encourage and show them what to do.

Isn’t that like our lives? We don’t deliberately capsize ourselves but when it happens it’s good to know there are others who know how to turn us back up the right way, and if we’ve fallen out the boat (which some of them did!) they’ll help us back on board.😊

I read the RNLI account of two university students who were swept out to sea by a rip current and the only way they survived was by floating, instead of treading water, till help came. We too can keep afloat by ‘floating’ in His Word till the help comes which we need. 

God uses all of us to be His hands and feet to go on rescue missions to help the fallen, to bring a word of encouragement, a healing scripture, a God perspective. So if your boat feels in danger of capsizing, or if it already has, know that help is on the way, God and His Word are your lifeline and He won’t let you drown.

John 6:63 NLT The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.

He has given us the lifebelt and lifeline of His Word, so hold on to it and don’t let it go!😊Amen.

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