Unsinkable Faith

A faithful Christian is like an unsinkable boat with a buoyancy tank, an emergency radio, and a rescue team ready to respond to a call.

For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. Pr 24:16 NIV

God has good plans for your life. Have you failed time and time again? Have your colleagues looked down on you? Or perhaps even your family?

At the age of 40, Moses was a failure. He tried on his own to liberate his Hebrew people. His attempt was a disaster. He killed an Egyptian and had to flee. He then spent 40 years as a shepherd in the desert, a nobody in a foreign land.

Are you considered a problem person? Perhaps you see yourself as a problem?
 
Mary Magdalene was not a successful person when she met Jesus. But Jesus saw great potential in her. Jesus saw her as a holy woman. She was chosen by God to be the first witness of the risen Son of God. When even the apostles despaired, she was chosen to testify to the men about the resurrection.

What do we know about Mary?

When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. 

She went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping. 
When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it. Mk 16:9–11 NIV

In religious tradition, Mary is regarded as an evil woman before her conversion, probably a prostitute, but this is pure fiction.

Perhaps she was mentally ill, perhaps somehow disabled or deeply depressed. We don't know. In any case, she was probably not a successful person.

Perhaps you are in a tight spot right now, and not for the first time. If Jesus is your Lord, then he is also your Saviour. He always has a way out for you.

The disciples were in a small boat in a terrible storm. They were experienced fishermen, but this storm was quite extraordinary.

Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. 
The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” Mt 8:24–25 NIV

Jesus was in the boat. They could not sink when the Son of God was in the boat. When the Creator of the universe dwells in you, you are also like an unsinkable boat. Even if you capsize, you remain in God's hand.

We know the story of how Jesus exercised authority over the weather.

He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. Mt 8:26 NIV

The boat was filled with water, but it could not sink because God Himself was in the boat. 

My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. 

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 
What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. Jn 10:27–29 NRSV

If you have entrusted your life to Jesus, you can trust God to provide for you in the worst situations and rescue you from many predicaments.

You can pray like David and believe too.

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, Until these calamities have passed by. 

I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me. Ps 57:1–2 NKJV