Struggling to stay afloat? Need a LIfe Saver?

 There is a picture in my mind, as I read a story in the news about a person jumping in a lake off a boat to save someone who is drowning...

I have heard that when a person is drowning, and someone is trying to help them, they struggle profusely, fighting the person who is actually trying to SAVE their life.

It is a natural response in the victim, because they are in the middle of sinking and trying to stay afloat.

 I thought about this and then I also thought about how many times I have, in a different ways struggled with God while He is trying to lift me "out of the deep waters" of myself.

I sometimes feel like I am drowning in situations that I am trying to stay afloat in. 

  The first time that I was drowning was 42 years ago. 

I was barely hanging on, barely breathing, taking on lots of "water" due to a deep ocean of self preservation, that actually wasn't working at all!

  God jumped into my life and all He asked me to do was, relax, and Trust Him, to carry me to shore.

I actually, did just that. I had exhausted all my own resources. With  all my assumptions of remedies, none of them worked out as I thought they would. I was still losing, and drowning...

  So, I let go, and let God rescue  me with a Life Saver of a different kind. I have never regretted that. And I have found over the years, His remedies rescue me time and time again.

  His Life Saver  is faith in Christ and what He did on the Cross for me. My faith in Him and His ways bring me out of many waters.

  God IS the "Rescuer," the "Remedy" for drowning victims, of all kinds. He only asks that I put faith in Him and His plans for me. The PLAN comes about in my life by adapting my thinking to His.

My finite thinking just won't do. It never did. Not to say, that my mind is completely no good, but it needs to be tweaked and refined. 

  God gave me a brain and a heart and a soul. These three things need to be combined in such a way that His plans for me will not be missed.

 So, with faith in Him and His goodness as absolute TRUTH, I am able to come out of a self made struggle, again and defer to His wisdom. I have the privlege  of bringing all my issues to God by something He" invented." 

Prayer. 

It is convenient and encouraged by God.   

 If He says  " Come to Me, all you who are heavy laden and I will give you rest.  Matthew 11:28

 I'd be a fool not to take Him up on it!!

 Doing Life is hard at times, and sooner or later, REALLY hard... so I DO talk to God alot! Where ever I am....

 I am always glad to bring to Him all my concerns and I like to ask for His help on many things.

 I find His wisdom in His Word. I need it!!  It gives me encouragement, direction and peace.  Most of the time, His Word is so opposite of how I think I should deal with something . Without it, I would surely die. 

We were never meant to keep ourselves afloat alone. God hangs on to us, if we only let Him.

Gods grace is so astounding, because He gives it over and over, and over and over, again and again!!

 I am benefitted and He is glorified.

Its a great remedy to this thing called LIFE.

No losers here. None.

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."  Romans 12:1