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Don't Cruise Through Life Like The Captain Of The Titanic
Michael Q. Pink
Oct 21, 2004
You have heard it quoted, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths." A closer look at this passage reveals some important clues. Let me begin by giving a more literal translation. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own ability to distinguish or discern. In all ways, know Him and He will straighten and smooth out your paths.
Remember Adam? He wanted to distinguish or discern for himself good and evil. So, he partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The rest, as they say, is history. Today, however, we often find ourselves wanting to do the same thing. We want to determine what is good, what is best, what is right, what is wrong, and we are simply not equipped to get it all right all the time. We act on a belief that something is good and right, being unaware of circumstances beyond our ability to anticipate or control.
We cruise through life like the captain of the Titanic who ignored seven warnings before crashing into an iceberg sinking the unsinkable. Was he a good sailor? He probably was. Did he do the right thing? He obviously did not. Had he known his pending fate, he would have changed course. There is the rub - apart from God's loving warnings, we cannot know the foolishness of our wisest choices. No wonder He calls us sheep!
Don't Cruise Through Life Like The Captain Of The Titanic
Michael Q. Pink
Oct 21, 2004
You have heard it quoted, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths." A closer look at this passage reveals some important clues. Let me begin by giving a more literal translation. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own ability to distinguish or discern. In all ways, know Him and He will straighten and smooth out your paths.
Remember Adam? He wanted to distinguish or discern for himself good and evil. So, he partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The rest, as they say, is history. Today, however, we often find ourselves wanting to do the same thing. We want to determine what is good, what is best, what is right, what is wrong, and we are simply not equipped to get it all right all the time. We act on a belief that something is good and right, being unaware of circumstances beyond our ability to anticipate or control.
We cruise through life like the captain of the Titanic who ignored seven warnings before crashing into an iceberg sinking the unsinkable. Was he a good sailor? He probably was. Did he do the right thing? He obviously did not. Had he known his pending fate, he would have changed course. There is the rub - apart from God's loving warnings, we cannot know the foolishness of our wisest choices. No wonder He calls us sheep!
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