Sail On!

Like Paul many of us are sailing on to a destination that is determined by God. Our course of life is laid out before us and there is no doubt that the journey of life that we have embarked upon is exactly in God’s perfect will and in His perfect timing. Yet, we have the Euroclydons of life to come upon us.

Has God called you to do a ministry for Him and yet not made the performance of that ministry easy? Will there be times of discouragement, times of thinking that you have failed, times when you wonder if the problem is you, or wonder if it was really God speaking in the first place? If not, then praise God for you are an exception to the rule. I personally have never known anyone who accomplished anything for the Lord or did anything in life that was worthwhile who didn’t face those very same thoughts.

Paul was delivered from the tempest and because of his faithfulness to God; everyone on the ship with him was saved. God didn’t deliver Paul out of the storm; He delivered Paul through the storm. God will do the same for you.

Even though your ship is battered and torn, though your sails are ripped, and it seems that your whole life is tied together with bailing wire and duct tape, remember, God is still in control. As long as we sail on through the storms and set our goal on the portals of Heaven we will never be shipwrecked. God’s lighthouse of the gospel and the direction of the Holy Spirit within operates as a Spiritual gyroscope to bring us safely into the arms of Jesus on that distant shore, so SAIL ON, and don’t abandon ship when you feel like its going down.

The last ship I want to talk about is not found in the Scripture in name but it is found there in a sense and that is the OLD GOSPEL SHIP!

Throughout the Christian world, life has been compared to a ship on its voyage. Many gospel songs have been written that speak of this very thing.

Rusty Goodman had a song that many have since recorded called “The Lighthouse”.

A few of the old hymns like “Let the Lower Lights be Burning”, “Throw out the Lifeline: and “The Old Ship of Zion” are a few more.

My personal favorite is “The Old Gospel Ship”:

I’m gonna take a trip in the good old Gospel Ship

I’m going far beyond the sky

I’m gonna shout and sing until the heavens’ ring

When I’m bidding this world goodbye.

There are other verses but this is the best in my mind because it brings to life the hope of the Rapture of the church and the resurrection of the dead in Christ.

I want to be on that old Gospel Ship and the old Ship of Zion. I want to sail on into eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ at the helm.

The Gospel Ship is sailing on today and it won’t wait on anyone. Anybody can get a ticket because they are free of charge. This journey through life on board the Gospel Ship has been paid in full by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 55:1, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."