The grace of God is like a lifeboat in the midst of the sea. And when you find yourself in the middle of the sea and your arms start growing tired and it starts hitting you that you have nowhere to swim and are about to drown, then a lifeboat emerges. But the boat has the flag of a nation that is not your own. And you can decide to reach out and be rescued. But you also know that when you reach out and when you're pulled onto that boat, you have to follow their ways. Christ is rescuing the broken. But if you want to be rescued, you need to get into his boat and become part of his kingdom, leaving your ways, your culture, your thinking behind. For his ways and his kingdom are not your ways and not your kingdom, but his ways are better. And he will never let you fall into the ocean again while this world will be quick to throw you overboard. And then you realize all of this, this new boat, this new nation, this new kingdom, it's not actually that foreign. And you discover that your Father in heaven owns the boat, but the One who made you, who's always known you, even if you didn't always know him. And he sent that boat just for you. See, God is pursuing you personally, individually, with his grace, intervening in your life at unexpected moments to show his love. If you could only recognize it. Men, they have free will. And men in this world will betray us. But God in His love will prevail. And he will never betray us. And he takes us all to Himself until the last day where we will all be resurrected to the face to face with Him. A place where there will be no more tears, no more death, no more hurt, no more fear.