• Where Is Your Compass?

  Contributed by Scott Jensen on May 1, 2008 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Lutheran

WHERE IS YOUR COMPASS?

Before the days of modern navigational aids, a traveler made the Atlantic crossing in a boat equipped with two compasses. One was fixed to the deck where the man at the wheel could see it. The other compass was fastened up on one of the masts, and often a sailor would be seen climbing up to inspect it.

The passenger asked the captain, "Why do you have two compasses?"

"This is an iron vessel," replied the captain, "and the compass on the deck is often affected by its surroundings. Such is not the case with the compass at the masthead; that one is above the influence. We steer by the compass above.

(Tan, P.L. "Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations", 1924)

As Christians, where is our compass? Is it on the earth, or is it in things above?