We have never met (true for about 99.9% of my readers), but we are the same in a lot of ways.  You feel a stir in your spirit, or perhaps you receive a promise through the Word of God, and you set out on an adventure of faith with great hope and expectation for the “new and good thing” that you are expecting to happen as a result of this prompting or promise.

“Let us go across
to the other side of the lake.”

But time drags on.

Discouragement begins to weigh on your shoulders.

Weariness begin to eat away at hope….

and you begin to fear.

One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.”  So they started out.  As they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep.  Suddenly a strong wind blew down on the lake, and the boat began to fill with water, so that they were all in great danger.  The disciples went to Jesus and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master!  We are about to die!”     
Luke 8:22-24 (GNB)

I’ve set out on many such journeys of faith over the years, and am still on many of them.

I am still waiting for the long awaited and much anticipated answers to many prayers.

I bet you are too.

And sometimes you probably feel like I do … like you’re sitting out in the middle of a big lake, at dusk, being battered by waves of fear and doubt, with the shoreline so far away you can’t even see it.

But here is what the Holy Spirit speaks to me through these few verses of Luke 8.

If Jesus is in the boat with me (with you), we WILL get to the other side … just as He said!!

Friend, if Jesus says we are going to the other side, we are going to the other side! Maybe not as fast as I would like, and maybe we will encounter some turbulence along the way … but we are getting there! He will make sure of it, even if He has to pick me up and carry me on His shoulders while He walks across the water to bring me to shore!!

Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man that he should lie…”

I hope that brings comfort to your spirit as you meditate on this simple truth.  He is in the boat with you.  He will get you to shore, just as He promised.