Phillipians 4 : 9. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Psalms 22
1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2. O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
In the Poseidon adventure: a movie based in part on the story of the Poseidon a ocean liner that flipped over in the 1800's. A luxury ocean liner meets a massive wave which flips it upside down. A handful of surviving passengers, led by a progressive-thinking minister, try to make their way up to the "bottom" of the ship which is now facing skyward. It is a dangerous journey, filled with sacrifice, trials, and tribulations. But at the end of the journey is deliverance. It is this hope that keeps this particular band of survivors moving forward.
The passengers of the Poseidon, those who believed that rescue was possible, needed to act in order to logically position themselves where the rescue would take place. Others, who chose to wait in their false hope, took no action. They perished. They did not have the courage of their conviction. They did not move ahead with any kind of assurance, trust or faith.
Believing is an action word -- not a passive word. To believe requires us to act upon that which we believe. If we do not act, we are not truly believing. And without believing, we shall not receive the deliverance that is available to us.
