You would like to take this great step out of danger into safety; but you find it very hard, though it sounds very easy. You feel as if you had a spiritual nightmare—seeing the danger, and not able to stir hand or foot to escape it. Perhaps every one who comes to Christ has this sense of utter helplessness about it. This is because the Holy Spirit must convince us that the whole thing is God's doing, and not ours, so that He may have all the glory of saving us from beginning to end. It is not at all because He is not willing to save us, but just because He is willing, that He lets us find out for ourselves that our own will is so numb that it cannot rouse and move without the fire of His love and grace. Now just trust His promise, "Thou shalt come into the Ark"; in other words, believe that His power and love are even now being exerted upon you, and that your sense of helplessness is only part of His wonderful way of drawing you to Jesus.
Now trust the one provided rope, now quit the broken mast,
Before the hope of safety be forever past.
Fear not to trust His simple word, so sweet, so tried, so true,
And you are safe for evermore, yes—even you!