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A certain sea captain and his chief engineer argued as to which of them was more important to the ship. Failing to agree, they resorted to a unique plan of swapping places.
The chief engineer ascended to the bridge and the captain went to the engine room. After a couple of hours the captain suddenly appeared on the deck covered with oil and soot.
“Chief!” he yelled, wildly waving aloft a monkey wrench. “You’ll have to come down here; I can’t make her go!”
“Of course you can’t,” replied the chief. “We’re aground!”
That argument between the captain and the chief engineer and its results mirrors the struggle that you and I face when it comes to who is in charge of our lives.
Jeremiah spoke the truth when he wrote, “O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23). In fact, when you and I seek to take control and direct our own ships, we often “run it aground,” for “there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12).
We need direction! The real issue is Lordship. Who is going to be the lord of our lives–ourselves or the Lord?
via Findlay church of Christ
Sparta, TN