Photos by Ray White

“Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I’ll let loose with your praise.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭51‬:‭7‬-‭15‬ ‭MSG‬‬

One Water Walking Wednesday in July, I shared the picture of the life preserver on the left. In that post, I encouraged you to throw unbelievers a life preserver by sharing the Good News with them. Click here to read that post. 

Have you seized an opportunity to share Christ with others? If so, how did it go? Did they immediately grab hold of the life preserver or did they meet you with resistance and tear the life preserver to shreds?

The picture on the right is the same life preserver after Hurricane Ian. The wind and surge beat against it and tore it to shreds. Life brings turmoil and we are met with resistance, but we can’t give up. Today’s highlighted scripture reminds us of our call. “Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home.” 

Notice the sentence that appears just before it: “Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!”

Have you tried to share Jesus with others and you feel beaten down? This Water Walking Wednesday I encourage you to not give up. Keep sharing Jesus. Keep loving like Christ. Be persistent! Ask God to “put a fresh wind” in your sails and to show you your next step to walk on water.