Sink or Swim, yet He carries you

Some days or seasons or decades

You just feel like you are treading water

Just surviving and never thriving

Staying a float but never getting anywhere

Exhausted from the effort and showing no progress

And if you let up for one minute.

If you relax your striving, you will sink

It all feels pointless

Yet necessary 

Because you just have to stay afloat

The alternative is not an option

So you kick and you kick 

Just keeping an eye on the surface of the water

Not able to look past it

And all of a sudden you look up 

And you are in a different spot than you were before

The current is carrying you 

Taking you farther than you could go 

While you were just trying to survive

There was a force bigger than yourself moving you along

Even in your striving

When it feels like you are getting nowhere

When it feels like you are moments away from sinking under it all

Other moments you feel strong and able

Swimming hard in the direction you want to go

And yet, no matter how well you swim 

You just can’t make any progress

The current works against you

No matter how much you struggle

The Lord is taking you to where He wants you to be

His current is pulling you in the direction that He has for you

He fulfills His good promises despite your effort or ability to participate.

He carries you when you can’t swim

He never leaves you 

Never stands by as you flail and drown