Who’s in Charge?

  [217 words] 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…