I just read a story in Acts that I don't remember learning. It's about Paul and his journey to Rome, and while he's on the boat, they encounter a storm and the crew on the boat fear they will never reach land, and are destined to die at sea. They go many days in a dark storm and lose their sense of direction. They get to the point where they lose all hope.
While the crew is up on deck doing everything they can to keep themselves alive and afloat, Paul is praying and fasting that everything will go ok. He comes up to the crewmen and tells them "And now I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there shall be no loss among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve. Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar, and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee."
Paul continued to have faith that if the Lord told him he would be brought before Caesar, he would make this journey alive. He trusted in God and didn't fear the storm would take his life.
In a way that's a lot like what we have to do. We trust that God will welcome us back home someday, and that we shouldn't fear the storms of life that we have to pass through. As long as we remember where our true end destination is, we will be able to make it through any storm.
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