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“Thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep” (2 Corinthians 11:25).
This is a very short verse, but it would be interesting to sit down with the Apostle Paul and hear the details of these three shipwrecks. We do not know anything about what happened, for the only shipwreck in Paul’s life about which we know any details (Acts 27) had not yet happened when Paul wrote this to the Corinthians.
Last night here on the south coast of Cyprus, we heard a terrific storm out on the Mediterranean Sea, with high winds, heavy rain, loud crashing of waves, and a lot of thunder. I laid in bed and thought of the Apostle Paul and some of his experiences, and how he was probably shipwrecked in a storm like this.
If you know the Lord as your Savior, you are not promised an easy pathway through life either. You may not be shipwrecked, as Paul was, but we know that we will be called upon to suffer for Christ, if we live a faithful life before Him in this world. Paul could say, “Out of them all the Lord delivered me” (2 Timothy 3:11), and we have that promise too.
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