Live a Trouble Free Life

Posted by Pastor Claude Thomas on Aug 7th, 2008

Author: Pastor Claude Thomas

Does following Jesus mean you live a trouble-free life? We’d like to believe that difficulties, disappointments, and distresses are not part of the Christian experience. And because that desire is so strong, we may want to believe a man-made theology that says, “Trust Jesus and all troubles will vanish and smooth sailing will be ahead.” That is in stark contrast to the Bible and reality. Devoted followers of Jesus have known storms from the beginning of the Christian faith.

Early in Christian art, the ship became a symbol of the Christian community…body of believers… the church. No doubt the symbol was taken because ships experience storms on the seas… and Believers experience storms on the seas of life. And it certainly reflects an incident recorded in the Bible. “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat so that it was already filling.”(Mark 4:37). The storm was a great and powerful.
Storms strike our lives. Relationships are tossed about and verge on breaking. Illnesses suddenly appear on the scene. Death unexpectedly comes knocking. Financial reversals visit. We all experience storms in life. And when they do, we want to be certain Jesus is in the “boat of our lives!”