DEVOTIONAL FOR Tuesday, June 19, 2018
“For That Is Just the Time”
by Dona Hake
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never
give up then, for that is just the time and place that the tide
will turn.” Harriet Beecher Stowe
I love this quote. It makes me wonder how many times that I have given up on something or someone just when the tide was ready to turn. I cannot help but think of Peter as he stepped out of the boat upon the Lord’s command. “Come Peter!” I can only imagine what was going through Peter’s mind as he looked down, and saw himself walking on the water. His faith was at work and he was defying the impossible. Yet when his mind became focused on the wind, waves and the all the storm brought, he began to sink. Jesus reached out His hand to Peter, took a firm hold and kept him above water. The thing that always hit me the hardest with this account was that Peter was only an arm’s reach away from Jesus.
How many times are we just an arm’s reach away from the finish line of success and the goal we have set before us. How many times is the tide ready to turn and we throw up our hands and give up.
We must apply diligence and persistence to all we set ourselves to do. It is as we do this that we can pass on the torch of what we learned in our accomplishment to those that need this same word of encouragement!
“And let us not get tired of doing what is right, for
after a while we will reap a harvest of blessing
if we don’t get discouraged and give up.”
Galatians 6:9 TLB