And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves; but he [Jesus] was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish (Mt. 8:24-25).
This got me thinking on what we do in our darkest hours. Would we pray, read the bible, or run away from the situation. The apostles were very afraid in this situation. They ran and hid from the storm because they thought they were going to die. Then they remembered that Jesus could help them, who was sleeping in the boat. They quickly ran down and aroused him. Once up Jesus calmed the raging weather easily astounding the Apostles. This situation can be easily related to our own lives. When our life starts to get hectic and scary, we abandon all hope and run away and hide. We lose focus of God who could guide us through our situation, but instead we focus on the problem instead. And the more we focus on the problem, the worse it gets. It gets so big that we can't handle them anymore and we lose control. We tried so hard to maintain the problem, and then we become victims of the problem. The problem consumes and we are no longer to resist and we completely submit to the problem.
All hope seem lost, right? Actually no, we can slowly rebuild ourselves by first, focus on other things than the situation. We can do this by reading the Bible, praying, and get a group of friends that know what you are going through to assist you. The saying power in numbers is very true, the advice that all of your friends can give and the help can be invaluable. This may be how God works to help save us. We can also ask for God's assistance, for there is nothing that is too big for him to help us with. Finally, if we are honest with ourselves, we can see what we have done wrong and correct it. We can escape the problem and recover from its oppressiveness. All this cannot be done with out God, and once we escape our darkest hour, we have no one to thank but God.
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