As Bethany Hamilton, a committed believer and renowned surfer says " Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave."It is very true that sometimes when we are caught in the impact zone, we stumble, get confused, loose hope and succumb to sorrow and depression. But Paul says in Philippians 4: 6-7 " Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything....Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. ...."
In the Chapters 13 and 14 of I Samuel, we can see the response of two people, who are going through a tough time, where one acted in fear of people but the other acted with faith in God. We can see the ironical behavior of a father and son, where the father Saul acted in fear that his army was dwindling, philistines are attacking and disobeyed God by offering the burnt offering to God, which was supposed to be done by Samuel. He was looking for God's favor without having patience to wait for God's time. On the other side of the story, we can see the son of Saul, Jonathan acting with faith in God. He took his armor man and creeped near the philistine army and started attacking the Philistines trusting that God will deliver them into his hands. Though he was alone with his armor man facing a vast army with innumerable soldiers and huge number of chariots, he remembered the great things God has done in the past and trusted that the God whom he worships is powerful than the vast army and He will fight on behalf of him.
Many times in our lives, we try to fight the battle on our own. When we are caught in the impact zone of our lives, we fail to realize that the one who is within us is greater than the one who is in the world. We try to look for help from people, our job, our relationships, our money, and act in fear of our circumstances and succumb to depression eventually hurting our God as well as ourselves. When we get depressed, it not only hurts us but also our Lord because He wants us to be filled with the river of living water but we fill our hearts with fear and depression. David says in Psalm 62 "Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge." Let us introspect our lives and ask God to help us to act in faith but not in fear. It is easy to trust in God when everything goes fine in our lives but our true faith comes out only when things become tough in our lives. Are you trusting God even at times when you are caught in storms and things goes out of your control ? Let us examine our lives and ask God to help us to trust him at all the times of our lives.
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