Warning
The Master Kat tells me that it is better to sail on the wrong boat, under the wrong flag, than no ship at all.
He tells me that going through the wrong gateway, even with the pain and death that may accompany such a choice, is preferable to the slow and agonizing death that a life of paralysis promises.
Something, even the wrong thing ... is better than nothing.
He warns me: if nothing changes, I will die like this, or worse.
It is a scary proposition.
He tells me that going through the wrong gateway, even with the pain and death that may accompany such a choice, is preferable to the slow and agonizing death that a life of paralysis promises.
Something, even the wrong thing ... is better than nothing.
He warns me: if nothing changes, I will die like this, or worse.
It is a scary proposition.
posted by Miroslav at 3:26 PM
8 Comments:
Master misses it on several levels on this one...if this is all he said. Many of my Bible heros spent years...not months, in the conflict ot faith you are experiencing. Check out the Psalms for starters. David was not writing about a bad day in his prolonged seasons of bewilderment and hanging on for dear lifeSong-prayers. If you could budge yourself off of the reef you have landed on you wouldn't be in such need of a savore. He will come and get you. No one goes looking for Him near as hars as He comes after us.
Dad
wonder...what is worse than death? and i do not agree that the wrong thing is better than nothing...just sayin'
Aren't you already sailing on a boat?
Is it even possible to not be on any boat?
You may be on a slow boat (to China?) but I think you ARE sailing and shouldn't worry about needing to find a ship quick, at the risk of it not being the right one.
But maybe Master Kat means for you to keep thinking things through? For it is a death of sorts to stop examining life and the big questions, no? Even if one is on the right ship, I would think he/she could become paralyized by lack of thought, by no desire to work things through in his/her head and heart. It is easy to get stuck in a rut...and no longer examine LIVING.
Hmmmm.
Your dad hits the nail on the head with the scripture thought. I have been shocked at how *slowly* folks seemed to move in Bible times. Moses -- 40 years tending sheep??!! Yikes. Just to prepare his heart for the big things God had for him. And then those "big things" led eventually to him leading a bunch of complainers through another 40 years of waiting and wandering. Strange! God's economy/timetable don't fit nicely in our Western instant gratification way-of-thinking.
I agree with Dad and Deborah.
So there.
Just kidding. I mean...I DO agree with them but I have a leetle more to say.
"Is it even possible to not be on any boat?"
What a wonderful question! I think the answer is a FAT 'no'. How is it possible for any man to evaluate all the 'other' boats and not have his boat evaluated because...well...he doesn't have one? Somehow, this man stands OUTSIDE the realm of having a boat...of boat-dom...?
No boat...IS a boat. (how profound!)
I believe the only One who doesn't have a boat is The Evaluator.
Here is Jesus on just this very topic:
Mark 14:21
...But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
It can't get any worse than that.
p.s. Can one BE the boat?
;)
It's never nothing, always something. Mister Kitty. I would take exception to that concept that it is better to be on the wrong boat, going the wrong way, with the wrong crew than going nowhere at all. But then again didn't Jesus say that it is better to be hot or cold than to be flotsam on the stream of life. Oh no, I just perambulated.
Dad,
Good points. You do have to remember... he WAS talking to me after months of meeting together. I don't think this is a general truth that he goes about indiscrimintaly proclaiming to all who might ask.
Aeroangel,
I think there are many things worse than death. Hopelesness or a tortured life, for instance.
The Master Kat suggests that a life paralyzed by indecision is equally horrible as the things I've listed.
Deborah,
If we were to try to disect the boat analogy, we would find that it can be interpreted a large number of ways. For instance, are all boats other than Christ's destined to hell? Or... is apathy a boat on the ocean drifting towards a rocky shore or perhaps drifting eternally as the crew dies a slow meaningless death? ... or can one really NOT have a boat?
In my conversation with The Master Kat, we spoke of the inumerable number of ideologies that one is exposed to when attempting to explore the spirit world. Specifically, we spoke of how it seems that I now find myself drifting in the ocean, bobbing up and down in deep waters, paralyzed by lack of assurance enough to pull myself up on to the deck of these ships. Wether it be the ship of agnosticism, or Christianity, or humanism, or athiesm... I find myself in the salty waters of unassuredness and time continues to pass. Not for lack of trying or for pushing forward or praying or analyzing. I simply have no foothold strong enough to wrestle myself on to these sloops! Each time I begin to, slippery doubts cause me to fall back in again to the waters.
One day, to a week, to a month, and now nearly a YEAR has passed.
I like your insight regarding the time aspect of movement and change in our lives. I want it ALL... and NOW damnit! It really is a torturous thing to not know how to change the situation.
Some days I find myself feeling completely free thinking and liberated... and other days I feel lost, confused, and nostalgic for days gone by.
So, besides the idea that any boat is better than no boat... The Master Kat also suggested I stick with the boat I've been on until something profoundly better comes along. But I don't know how to do that. My allegiance to my ship was never due to anything other than my complete and utter belief that it was the RIGHT ONE! ...
Bah... enough talk of boats. I don't know enough boatspeak to make it an effective analogy.
dashboard,
you are getting all Matrix on us now. hehe... I like it.
Good thoughst on The Evaluator. I like that term.
sidewards8,
Intelligent and well articulated thoughts?!!! Is this an imposter?!! :)
Great point here bro.
Perhaps the failure, pain, and regret of the wrong path is used, in fact, to show one more clearly which is the Right Path. Or perhaps God is able to do more with a wrong decision, strongly made ... than no decision at all.
Miroslav once again sets himself up for the 'no decision IS a decision' line...
He's got 10 hours in with you my boy. Over a period of months is exactly my point. I had one triql in my Christian life that from beginning to end was almost 10 years long. Healing from my past battle/trial is going on 5 years. I know your questioning has been years in the making so all I can say is...welcome to the NFL. I stand on my first post...he swung and missed on this one. You need a Gid who can save...there are times we just can't pick ourselves up or figure it out. You cry out for help...that's all, and He will answer.
dad
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