There was a man who was shipwrecked in the middle of the sea. He was in a fierce storm and just sure he was going to die. So he cried out, “God, save me!”
All of a sudden his ship caught fire. He jumped overboard clinging to a piece of the hull, angry and scared. He cried out again, “Why did you abandon me? I asked for help and you burnt my ship.”
All of a sudden this huge ship just cuts through the storm and pulls the man to safety. The captain said to the man, “It’s a good thing that your ship caught fire because if it hadn’t we never would have seen you.”
God’s ways are above our ways; His thought above our thoughts. Who can know the mind of God? God could have wiped us all out, the whole human race. But, instead, He said, “No, they are worth it.”
God doesn’t need us, He wants us. That’s why Jesus came and died on the cross. We’re saved by love. It doesn’t always come in the form of a lighthouse or lightning in the sky. Sometimes our ship needs to burn before we are rescued, and sometimes the answer just may come in a small voice.
