Jesus, Pilot my Ship …

In the last week, three shipwrecks have been found. The eerie, skeleton-like remains of what used to be mighty ships, or voyages filled with good hopes, are all that is left to tell the story of ruined lives.

Paul wrote Timothy and urged him to safely guard God’s Word, to “teach no other doctrine”, for some have “swerved off course and turned aside to vain jangling … having cast away faith, have made shipwreck.”

The writer of Hebrews uses the same imagery … “God, who in many portions and in various methods spoke in times past unto the forefathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son … therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should slip past our moorings.” – (Hebrews 1:1, 2:1)

As the song says so beautifully …

The soul of a man is like a ship That sails on the sea of time Storms may come and winds may blow And rock this ship of mine But the reason my ship has never sank And today it’s still afloat My compass is His precious Word And Jesus pilots my boat.

I won’t sail these stormy seas no more Unless Jesus leads the way I won’t ever drift so far from the shore I can’t hear what He has to say For I belong to a fleet that sails today On a glorious one way trip We’ll land safely on shore to sail no more For Jesus pilots my ship.