Pressure

 

In 2013 I did a Vacation Bible School program about deep sea creatures.  All of them were absolutely ugly with bizarre features.  The deep-sea Angler has a luminescent appendage that wiggles like a fishing lure!  It glows in the blackness of the ocean depths luring unsuspecting prey within range of its sharp teeth.  The Blobfish is dubbed ‘the ugliest fish in the ocean’ with its big nose and large mouth.  The Viperfish looks more like a snake than a fish.  These creatures live over 5 miles deep in the ocean where the pressure is almost 6 tons per square inch!  But how can they survive that pressure?!  Well, they are able to live down in the depths because the pressure on the inside is the same as the pressure on the outside.  Great lesson: to be able to withstand the pressures of the world from the outside, we must have the Lord’s faith and indwelling Holy Spirit power on the inside.  Annie Johnson Flint wrote,

He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater;

   He sendeth more strength when the labors increase.

To added affliction He addeth His mercy;

   To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.

His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,

   His pow’r has no boundary known unto men;

For out of His infinite riches in Jesus,

   He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.