No Water Can Swallow the Ship Where Lies the Master

I have always loved the song,  “Master the Tempest is Raging” 

Master! the tempest is raging!

The billows are tossing high! 

The sky is o'er-shadowed with blackness,  

No shelter or help is nigh. 

Carest thou not that [I] perish? 

How canst thou lie asleep? 

When each moment so madly is threatening  

A grave in the angry deep?

 As long as we are in mortality we can not avoid the storms of life. At those most perilous moments we do wonder why we are left to it's rage. Tho it may appear the Master is sleeping it is proof that He fears not – in His own due time He will calm the storm.

 

The winds and the waves shall obey thy will: 

Peace, be still. 

Whether the wrath of the storm tossed sea, 

Or demons, or man, or whatever it be! 

No water shall swallow the ship where lies, 

the Master of ocean and earth and skies!

They all shall sweetly obey thy will, 

Peace be still, peace be still. 

They all shall sweetly obey thy will, 

Peace, peace be still.

Master in anguish of spirit, 

I bow in my grief today. 

The depths of my sad heart are troubled, 

Oh waken and save I pray! 

Torrents of sin and of anguish, 

Sweep o'er my sinking soul, 

And I perish, I perish, dear Master! 

O hasten and take control!

 

Master the terror is over, 

The elements sweetly rest. 

Earth's sun in the calm lake is mirrored, 

And heaven's within my breast. 

Linger, O blessed redeemer! 

Leave me alone no more. 

And with JOY I shall make the blest harbor, 

And rest on the blissful shore.

No water can swallow the ship where lies, the Master of ocean and earth and skies!  

I love that line.

 I am on His ship. 

And as long as I remain on His ship, come what may, I am safe. 

The storms will rage – they must.  

Still waters takes a ship no where. I can get no where and learn nothing without the trials of life – without the other side of Joy. 

I feel very grateful for that today.

 “Remember, remember...it is upon the rock of our Redeemer...that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds...when all his hail and mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which you are built...” Helaman 5:12

“Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.” -Joseph Smith

No water can swallow the ship where lies, the Master of ocean and earth and skies!

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am he that comforteth you.”

2 Nephi 4:26,34

“Why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow...and my strength slacken because of mine afflictions? Why should I give way...that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul...O Lord, I have trusted thee and will trust in thee forever.”