I recently heard an amazingly, beautiful story of a daring rescue of a female humpback whale that had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and line. The story goes that the whale was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, and a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and got on the radio to get some help. Within a few hours, a rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her with their hands. This presented a very clear and present danger to each diver since one slap of the her tail could kill them. Looking past the danger, they worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
Can you imagine being in the water with this magnificent creature and having the privilege of such an emotional connection? One that very few in this life will ever experience! Can you imagine how trusting that whale had to be in order to allow those divers to move around her with knives so they could free her? Whether or not she knew or she just sensed that they were there to help her, she had to be still and have faith in those divers to be free from that tangled mess. It reminds me of how we can get so tangled up in this world, to the point where we too, have a hard time staying afloat. Unfortunately, I think it is very easy to do, but we, as Christians, must remember God has promised to never leave us! We are never alone! No matter how tangled up we get, God is there to free us! We must only BELIEVE and HAVE FAITH.
Mark 11:22-24 tells us, "So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."
God has given us the authority to bring forth the changes we want in our lives and to bring circumstances into line with the will of God for our lives. So if you find yourselves entangled in life to the point where you can barely breathe or stay afloat, remember the whale in this story and be still. Trust in God and have faith that He will answer your prayers. When you apply the principal of speaking in faith, you will release God's POWER in your life and you too, might even find yourself swimming in joyous circles!
Andre' =D
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