Set On a Course

[Gary Petty] Steven Covey tells a story of two battleships that were in a fleet and they were out sailing and heavy fog came in. And so they got disoriented. And the captain of the one of the battleships came up onto the bridge because they had lost contact with the other ships, and they're in this heavy fog, and he knew a collision could take place. And so off in the distance they see a light. He tells the signal man to signal to them that they were on a collision course, and they need to change their course by 20 degrees. What came back was, "You change your course by 20 degrees." Well, the captain was incensed. He said, "You signal to them, 'I am a captain. Change your course 20 degrees.'" What came back was, "I'm a midshipman. Change your course by 20 degrees." Well, by this time the captain is just livid. He said, "You send a signal that says, 'I'm a battleship. Change your course.'" What came back was, "I'm a lighthouse."

You know, it's interesting. We can be set on a course that we think is just so right and we're so stubborn and vehement that what we're doing is right, and many times we're headed for a shipwreck. We have to be humble before God. Let God guide our course. Let Jesus Christ be the Captain of our salvation.

Learn to trust Him even when sometimes we don't understand what He's doing, even when we don't understand where the course is going exactly because we do know this: In the end, He takes us where we should go. In the end, it's He that gives us purpose. It is in the end that our Creator, our Father helps us become His child.

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