When we live without God we are inevitably left to trust in our own resources and abilities to get us through life. These, however, only ever just keep us afloat, and only for a while. They certainly don’t allow us to get anywhere or achieve anything of lasting significance in life. For this we must trust in God. To be able to get anywhere in life our abilities and resources must become like sails to catch the wind of God. A sailor does not hope in his sail to get him somewhere. Rather he hopes for wind to blow the sail. If all you have is resources and abilities and no wind, then you will only ever just float. It may happen that God will allow these resources and abilities to fail so that you will begin to sink. He does this to break our trust in these things. He doesn’t just want you to float and drift around purposelessly through life. He wants you to sail with the wind of his Spirit. The people that Isaiah addresses here were afloat and buoyant with prosperity, but they were not going anywhere. So, God announced that he was going to sink their boat. He was going to take away the things that they trusted in to teach them that they must either sail or sink. Think of your resources and abilities as sails to catch the wind of God. A sail on its own is futile. It only has meaning when it is catching the wind. Raise your resources and abilities up to God like a sail and let him use them to take you where he wants you to go.
Do what I have suggested.
Read Isaiah 3:1-4:1
