Surviving on the broken pieces of the ship - Audio

Some have suffered all that they think they can suffer. Some have lost all that they think they can lose. Our text tonight applies to all of us for we have all experienced storms in the path of life. Paul is in a ship on his way to Rome. He warned them, but they did not listen to the dangers that lay before them. Life was rough for Paul and the others on this ship. The storm was intense. The ship rocked and was out of control. There are times in life like that when things seem out of control and there is no place to find comfort. We might question, how can God be with us and we are still dealing with so many issues? To make matters worse, the ship they are on runs aground and begins to break apart in the heavy seas. The very thing they counted on to bring them through began to fall apart in the relentless winds of of the storm. They moved into survival mode. Many of these men surly thought that they were done for. The word of God said that they all survived. Some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. Like Paul's journey, all of us suffer loss in our journal through life. Some have lost family members to death or divorce. Some have lost possessions, homes, or savings. Life will test us. It will test us to see how far we will go to survive. We will all experience storms. It is never comfortable in a storm. There will be times of confusion, fear and loss. There was much lost that night, but every man on the boat survived because God said that they would. We may not get to the end of life traveling in the same vessel we started in. We may only make it on a piece of the ship, but we will make it. Many of us do not have things we once had. We never envisioned that life would look like this. Despite of what may be broken up: homes, finances, families, we still have what we need to survive on the broken pieces of the ship.