We remember the day when Jesus walked into our boats. He walked in to our life and we started a new journey to sail. Life has been great ever since He is in our boat and slowly and steadily we started sailing and we have reached this far; but in this journey, Jesus is now in one corner and is sleeping. He is sleeping because we have been so busy with our own work that he got sleepy J
When we are sailing, we do have furious storms arising in our life. A storm of sickness and pain, a storm of disaster that has completely swept our lives, we get worried and at this point we start finding “where is Jesus?”. He’s right there in that corner sleeping at ease. It’s not that He is not feeling the disaster and pain in our life. He is in our boat and He feels the same as we feel, but He is waiting for us to ask ourselves – Where is Jesus?

Just like His disciples we find Him out and wake Him up. In our pain we call unto Him “God save us, we are going to drown!”

But Jesus who knows the end from the beginning, who is the alpha and the omega, the first and last very well knew that we will go though this phase of our life. He is prepared Himself for the worse that could come upon us and that’s why He is sleeping at ease. The moment you realize that the situation is out of control and is no more manageable, the moment we call upon Him, He wakes up just to make us sure that “I am still in control. I am still in business to make you something out of nothing!” and in a fraction of second, He who has authority over the heavens and the earth, the entire cosmos and everything that has been ever created turns the situation and makes us sail back smoothly.

That’s what our Jesus is all about. He is all there right near us and will act at the right time. It’s just that we need to abide by His words. His words say” Call upon the day of trouble and I will hear you”. Nothing is hidden from Him. He knows everything and He who knows everything and who has a plan for you and me, is well prepared to handle the worst situation of our life.

He is still in control of us; all we need to do is humble ourselves and remember Him, wait on Him and see How well He accomplishes His business in making you something out of nothing!

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Title INDE08090029 – He is prepared for what we think is our worse!

Section Specials
Category Key Concept
Source Encouragement, Inspiration
Date 30 December 2009

 Life is a twisted roller coaster will ups and downs, most of the twist is full of wonders that how can I overcome this twist? This twist in life will surely twist me to death. It was yet another incident that I went through that I realized that the calculations and equations I tried to balance were not summing up to a profit nor was it ending in a no loss no gain state. I felt that all my calculations went wrong and my expectations were all broken.

It was this time that the rema – the living word of God spoke to me saying, Cast your burdens unto Jesus and He will care for you. It again spoke to me for the Joy of the Lord is my strength.

Well that’s where I realized that the joy of the Lord is really my strength and it was this strength that lead me through in past 25 years of my twisted roller coaster ride,

What I realized in when the twist were beyond my capabilities, I felt was that the more you keep you God joyful the more you receive strength not to escape this roller coaster ride but to overcome it with splendid success.

You may ask me then what is the key to keep God joyful? Well the rema speaks for itself.

Read this passage:

Psalm 66

To the Chief Musician. A Song. A Psalm.

 ¹ Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
 ² Sing out the honor of His name;
         Make His praise glorious.
 ³ Say to God,
         “How awesome are Your works!
         Through the greatness of Your power
         Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
 ⁴ All the earth shall worship You
         And sing praises to You;
         They shall sing praises to Your name.”  Selah  
         
 ⁵ Come and see the works of God;
         He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.
 ⁶ He turned the sea into dry land;
         They went through the river on foot.
         There we will rejoice in Him.
 ⁷ He rules by His power forever;
         His eyes observe the nations;
         Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.  Selah  
         
 ⁸ Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
         And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
 ⁹ Who keeps our soul among the living,
         And does not allow our feet to be moved.
 ¹⁰ For You, O God, have tested us;
         You have refined us as silver is refined.
 ¹¹ You brought us into the net;
         You laid affliction on our backs.
 ¹² You have caused men to ride over our heads;
         We went through fire and through water;
         But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.
         
 ¹³ I will go into Your house with burnt offerings;
         I will pay You my vows,
 ¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered
         And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.
 ¹⁵ I will offer You burnt sacrifices of fat animals,
         With the sweet aroma of rams;
         I will offer bulls with goats.  Selah  
         
 ¹⁶ Come and hear, all you who fear God,
         And I will declare what He has done for my soul.
 ¹⁷ I cried to Him with my mouth,
         And He was extolled with my tongue.
 ¹⁸ If I regard iniquity in my heart,
         The Lord will not hear.
 ¹⁹ But certainly God has heard me;
         He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
         
 ²⁰ Blessed be God,
         Who has not turned away my prayer,
         Nor His mercy from me!

Well said, that’s the thought I just got in my mind when I found something that has yet hurt me. I know its no ones fault but I know yet again I am hurt.

Why did this come into my mind, I just start realizing the fact that yes my captain is a perfectionist. He will not take off nor will he land in a place where I am not meant for. No matter what comes I know for sure that my captain will never let me die.

I am thinking about a air flight. If you have ever traveled by a plane you will understand.

You need to take a ticket and either a visa or a visa on arrival before you board a plane. The moment you have the ticket in your hand you become nervous of the miles of height you are about to fly. The air hostess guides you through the passage and makes you seated on your seat. The initial phase is just a chaos with so may people trying to board in the flight. The air hostess tries her best to calm down the anxiety around. And suddenly we hear a voice that says “Good Morning this is flight captain, and I will be in charge of your flight. My aim is to reach you to your destination in the destined time”.

The captain makes sure that his crew ensures utmost care for the boarded passengers.

And slowly you see your bus moving and you find that the captain set the plain for take off. One after the other the engines start warming up and the voice of the wings get louder and you see the air hostess standing and giving you sets of instructions and tips. She prepares you even for the worst of the situation that may arise in the journey. And at once the captain announces “Ready for take off, passengers please ensure you have your safety belts”. The air hostess moves around and ensures all are well settled with seat belts on.

The flights starts running the runway and the it gears up the speed and you have bums and tough roads you run like a cheetah and there’s a tilting… a perfect tilting at the perfect time that positions you to an angle that takes you constantly deep into the sky. You find you are getting on the top of the world and you see the things outside you grow smaller and smaller and they disappear, in between them all you have wind hitting your flight that gives jerks to you but you know your captain knows how to handle them.

At rare times you find that the flight is too high and there is no air to breathe in…. hand on the captain says this is necessary and down comes a wired mask with gives you surplus oxygen to breathe from the center hub of oxygen stored in for times like these.

 When things go fine you have them taken away.

And look at your seats they have life saving jackets and air tubes well fitted and trust me if you have to make an emergency exit, the captain know how to get you ready for it. He throws you in deep waters to make sure you are safe.

And finally after a smooth sail with all the comfort care and love of the captains team you find your destination closer, and closer, your see it clearer and clearer and finally the captain says “Ready for landing please faster your seat belts and there you go down with a steep so speedily that you find it tough at times but at the perfect time he gets the wheels out and touches the destined ground with perfection.

That’s how life is when you anchor your life on the perfect Captain. None other the Jesus can be this Captain who know you very well and knows the destination you have to reach. He has his angels around you to comfort you and care for you. His Holy Spirit as the life saving oxygen for times you find its tough to breath and you have the God as your life saving jacket. How awesome it is to know that your captain is a perfectionist. Make sure you are in His hands for he knows the beginning and the end and is faithful to reach you to the other shore. Why do we need to worry then no matter what may come, He is there for you and he knows what the perfect for you and in that appointed perfect time He will give it to you.

 Amen!