Have you ever seen a battleship be built? It takes 3-4 years to be built. Every single part has to be made perfect and ready for battle; a single mistake could be catastrophic to the ships men.
After the ship is built, the ship must be steered correctly and focused on its mission. What happens if the rudder is off keel? The ship slowly and surely drifts off course. But not immediately, it’s a process that happens by a single degree being miscalculated.
And such is the case with our lives. We are fashioned perfectly by God as Psalms 139 talks about. But our own selfish desires can steer off course by a degree and lead us into shipwrecks.
I pray that God would guide our course, turn the rudders of our hearts back to Him, and we could rely on the Lord in all things!
Psalms 31- Turn Our Rudders God
Turn your ear to me Father
Rescue me with haste
That I might draw near to you
To get a glimpse, a small taste
You have redeemed me
Brought me from nothing
Fashioned my dying heart
Turned me into something
Be gracious to me God
For I am like a ship
Whose rudder is pointed the wrong way
And bow is about to tip
Only You can calm the waters
Easing the stormy sea
You take broken vessels like myself
Fixing the innermost of me
Your goodness is stored up abundantly
Like a farmhouse full of grain
In the middle of the summer heat
Your love pours out like rain
Love the Lord your God
All you who call Him friend
It is Him who preserves the faithful
Steadfast through the end
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