The book of Acts describes an account where Paul and others were shipwrecked. I’ve been in some scary situations, this battle with Leukemia being one of them. But to be shipwrecked has to be one of the worst. Furthermore, the situation doesn’t unfold with an orderly line up to get on the comfortable life boats. Nor is there a miraculous intervention by God where He suddenly transports them to a warm dry beach. No, the survivors are left clinging for their lives to a ship’s mast, a piece of timber and whatever they could grab onto.

Maybe there has been a time in your life when you have felt ‘shipwrecked,’ when your very footing washed away from under you; a time when in one moment everything was well to the next where you were tossed into the depths of a dark sea, unsure of your future. All resources to save yourself or even cope are lost and unavailable. Is your faith strong enough to keep you afloat during times like these? The time to build your faith is now, when your ship is still afloat. Start right now and give thanks for how God has already blessed you AND for how He will continue to bless you even in perilous situations.