How Did Paul Manage To Survive The Storms Of Life

In my homeland of Barbados, West Indies, we are accustomed to weathering seasonal and unseasonal storms almost as a way of life. As these storms make their way from continental Africa on their relentless journey across the Atlantic Ocean to pound the shores of Florida or Mississippi in the USA they are drawn with metronomic consistency to these beautiful and vulnerable islands of the Caribbean. As we reflect on this topic, surviving the storms of life, we should remind ourselves of a gripping account of surviving a real storm by reading the report as chronicled in Acts 27:14-29.

We can therefore empathize with the Apostle Paul who, in the scripture we have just read, found himself in a ship on the Mediterranean Sea heading for Rome being
Since it is a given that we will have storms throughout this earthly life, let us reflect on this episode and learn from Paul what it takes for us to be successful as Christians when encountering the storms of life. Make no mistake about it this life for most people are rough and for believers, who have taken up their cross and are following Jesus, it is rougher still. The world seems to be getting worse and wickedness seems to be exponentially increasing everywhere. The scene is therefore set for the inevitable storms of life to increase numerically as well as in their intensity and each believer has to do what it takes to ensure his
The presence of God, symbolic or otherwise, has meant more to people of faith than the presence of multitudes either for or against them. When God chooses to announce his presence or be present in a tangible way then things take on an awesome magnitude. This was so in the case of Daniel in the lions’ den, the three Hebrew boys in the fire and here in our text when Paul was in the middle of a ferocious storm. Why then, we may ask, is God’s presence so important? There are many factors beneficial to believers based on God’s presence and a few of them are as