“And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” Psalms 50:15.

“Shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!” what a profound statement. To be shipwrecked is to have lost the ship to ruin and suddenly stranded…no conceivable way to leave the present location. To be shipwrecked on God is to be secluded or lost to all possible human sources of support and to humbly lie in the hands of Almighty God . . . stranded or nowhere else to go, but dependent on His omnipotence…miraculous power to succor and sustain us. There is no safer place to be my friends than in the center of God’s will. “But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.” Psalms 40:17.

In the book of Ephesians chapter three we find the apostle Paul in a comparable situation. He was imprisoned for just what he was called to do for the Lord; preaching the gospel message “But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,” Acts 26:16-17.

Paul may have been physically imprisoned, but he was a prisoner of Jesus and not man. Therefore, he wrote “For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,” Ephesians 3:1. His purpose regardless to where God placed him was to bring the light of Christ to the gentiles and awareness to the Jews that salvation is of the Lord… the mysterious fact that God was creating a new man through Christ Jesus.

He recognized that It was God’s will that he was strategically placed in prison at that time; therefore, he preached, wrote to encourage, admonished, instructed and he prayed fervently for the body of Christ; even though he himself was confined, his heart, mind and spirit were free!

This should be a message to every born-again believer, God has divine providence and orders our steps. When we are obedient and follow where He leads; we are exactly where He wants us to be, like the apostle Paul, neither are we confined by physical and present circumstances…but we are spiritually free, knowing that through Christ love we can overcome any hardship or challenge. “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8:37.

Where are you today – are you shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence – in what may appear to be a perilous predicament? There is no better place to be than safe in the arms of God! “And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” Psalms 50:15.

God blessings of peace and protection to all.