Sit and sulk, or pray and conquer?

When first reading the following, you first think that it is a flatout depressing statement.
" We're all in the same sinking boat"

However we can take from this three important lessons.

1. No one is perfect, we all fail over and over again.

There are days when we feel worthless and uncapable of doing any good, or anything right. We were created with the inability of attaining perfection, its simply impossible. That is why there is such thing as grace and mercy. It is in our weaknesses that God can be strong. If we were perfect, we wouldn't need God. So its in our desperate situations, where we fail, that God can step in and do his thing.

2. We're not alone

Note how it says we're ALL in the SAME sinking boat. Although our struggles and weaknesses may differ, they leave us all with some sort of sin and failure. Whether its a problem lying, or a problem with jealousy, and the list goes on; sin is sin in Gods eyes, and we're all guilty of it. All of us have our imperfections, thus no one is better than another.

3. We can do something about it..

We have a choice in the 'sinking boat'

a) sit there and sulk.
b) sit there and pray for rescue
c) get up and start trying to get some of the water out of the boat.

Personally, I don't reccomend A.
However a lot of times we find ourselves letting A control our lives and situations. Something goes wrong, we don't understand why something happened, or our obstacle seems to big to attempt and defeat. So we accept it and do nothing. We come to a conclusion that we can't do much about it so why try and explore for a solution. This is the wrong attitude because God is greater than all our problems and confusion.He always holds a solution.

Lets look at B..
Prayer is very important. Prayer and seeking Gods guidance, will and purpose in each situation life throws at us, or each struggle we face. However, if we're in a sinking boat, we are going to want to incorporate prayer with action.

C.
We need to get up and do something. In the sinking boat, we would try and keep it afloat by getting water off board. But in our own strength, we would fail. We probably wouldn't last with a hole in the boat during calm seas, let alone a storm.The hole representing any struggles in our lives and our reactions to these struggles that causes the boat to sink. So our actions must be empowered by God and his holy spirit, we must seek his strength for we will not last on our own.We need to acknowledge that we need him to be strong in our weakness and use us to accomplish his work. For without him we are nothing. We need support from fellow Christians as well to work together and keep things afloat. Accountability is key.

So .
lets try to incorperate B and C into our lives, not so much the sitting down part, but the prayer and action.

Sit and Sulk ? or Pray and conquer?

you choose.