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Save me, I'm Drowning...
Mondays with Jesus 2017: Devotions to Begin Each Week of the Year
“Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.” Psalm 69:1-2
My sister and I had taken all of our children to a swimming pond about a half hour from our home. At the time, we had four little boys (my niece was born shortly after). Typical little boys, they were always getting into something, and this day was no exception.
We rented a pedal boat and took the four boys out into the water. Gina and I were pedaling and enjoying the beautiful day, and we thought the boys were enjoying the ride in the back. Consequently, we had six people in a five-person pedal boat, which didn’t seem to be a problem, since the boys were all pretty small. But that was before my nephew Mason found something to do to entertain himself in the back.
By the time we reached the center of the pond, a loud voice boomed out over the water (I had never realized the place had speakers in the trees until now, because no one had ever had a reason to call out to us before). And the voice said…
“Little boy! Stop putting water into your boat! You are going to sink!”
At this point, Gina and I turned to see Mason holding a small water pail, the same pail he’d apparently been using to put one scoop of water at a time into the boat, which was now barely hovering above the surface. A few more scoops and we’d have surely gone down.
Frantically, we all started scooping up the water with our hands and pitching it back into the pond, until the boat eventually crept above water’s surface, where it belonged.
But the memory is still vivid, that feeling that we might very well be going under, and not because of a flood, but because of a tiny pail…one scoop at a time.
Isn’t that the way it is with sin? You add a little, then a little more, and then more and more, but in such small increments that you don’t realize you are sinking, that the very vessel keeping you afloat is about to plunge beneath the surface and take you with it.
Thankfully, though we may not hear it in a booming voice screaming from speakers in the trees, we do still have the opportunity to hear the warning. We have God’s Word on our hearts. We have the Holy Spirit to comfort us and guide us. We have fellow Christians to hold us accountable and to keep us from sinking. Or scoop us up when they see us start to go under.
This Week: Are you sinking slowly, one pail at a time, with your sin? More than likely, you won’t have a voice screaming at you from the trees to tell you that you’re drowning. But you have the Bible. You have prayer. You have the Holy Spirit. You have fellow Christians. You—are—not—alone. Grab hold of the One who cares and let Him save you from your sin.
Renee Andrews
“Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.” Psalm 69:1-2
My sister and I had taken all of our children to a swimming pond about a half hour from our home. At the time, we had four little boys (my niece was born shortly after). Typical little boys, they were always getting into something, and this day was no exception.
We rented a pedal boat and took the four boys out into the water. Gina and I were pedaling and enjoying the beautiful day, and we thought the boys were enjoying the ride in the back. Consequently, we had six people in a five-person pedal boat, which didn’t seem to be a problem, since the boys were all pretty small. But that was before my nephew Mason found something to do to entertain himself in the back.
By the time we reached the center of the pond, a loud voice boomed out over the water (I had never realized the place had speakers in the trees until now, because no one had ever had a reason to call out to us before). And the voice said…
“Little boy! Stop putting water into your boat! You are going to sink!”
At this point, Gina and I turned to see Mason holding a small water pail, the same pail he’d apparently been using to put one scoop of water at a time into the boat, which was now barely hovering above the surface. A few more scoops and we’d have surely gone down.
Frantically, we all started scooping up the water with our hands and pitching it back into the pond, until the boat eventually crept above water’s surface, where it belonged.
But the memory is still vivid, that feeling that we might very well be going under, and not because of a flood, but because of a tiny pail…one scoop at a time.
Isn’t that the way it is with sin? You add a little, then a little more, and then more and more, but in such small increments that you don’t realize you are sinking, that the very vessel keeping you afloat is about to plunge beneath the surface and take you with it.
Thankfully, though we may not hear it in a booming voice screaming from speakers in the trees, we do still have the opportunity to hear the warning. We have God’s Word on our hearts. We have the Holy Spirit to comfort us and guide us. We have fellow Christians to hold us accountable and to keep us from sinking. Or scoop us up when they see us start to go under.
This Week: Are you sinking slowly, one pail at a time, with your sin? More than likely, you won’t have a voice screaming at you from the trees to tell you that you’re drowning. But you have the Bible. You have prayer. You have the Holy Spirit. You have fellow Christians. You—are—not—alone. Grab hold of the One who cares and let Him save you from your sin.
Renee Andrews
