Safe Haven

“You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah” (Psalm 32:7, ESV)

There once was a little boat, moored off a great land. One morning the boat looked to the horizon over the water and realized that a great storm had arisen. The small boat watched as the storm approached and realized that is was not a small storm but a mighty tempest was coming.

Other boats, but not all, were leaving their moorings for a place called Safe Haven, but the little boat decided to stand fast. You see the little boat did not want to leave the land since the land offered things that pleased the little boat and the boat had become accustomed to the land.

Yet, the storm continued to brew. The waves grew and began to crash mightily on the land. The little boat now came to a realization. To stay on this land, so attached to it, meant certain death. There was only one hope, to flee, to sail as fast and as hard as possible away from it to Safe Haven.

The little boat struggled to cut the mooring lines for they were big and strong. Their pull was mighty on the boat wanting to hold it back. However, the boat did cut them loose so that nothing now was holding it back. As soon as the little boat broke loose, it sailed away from the storm towards Safe Haven.

It seemed the boat immediately arrived at Safe Haven. It found that the storm still raged, but it found a place of shelter in the new land. Not only did the boat find shelter from the storm, but it also found the most beautiful place. The boat realized that this was true paradise. The little boat discovered that Safe Haven was infinitely greater than anything it had ever imagined, so much so that it lost all desire to return to its former land.

You see, it was because of the storm that the little boat left its former place to find Safe Haven. We ought not to let the trials or storms of life that come our way cause us such great distress. I believe the Lord permits these to drive us like the little boat to Safe Haven. The Psalmist indicates that Christ is our shelter in the time of the storm. It is often during the greatest trials that we will draw nearer still to Him, our Safe Haven. Are you in the midst of a trial today? Perhaps this storm is there to draw you closer to Safe Haven.