Protect Your Blessings

Captain Edward J. Smith was given the honor of captaining the Titanic’s maiden voyage. The captain was fifty nine years old. He planned that the Titanic’s first voyage would be his last. After he got to New York, he had planned to retire.  But as we all know, the voyage didn’t go as planned. Lots of errors, misjudgments, and unheeded warnings, were combined to generate this tragedy. The Captain was headed for retirement, but he wound up in an icy coffin thousands of feet in the ocean. The boasting and bragging was at a fever pitch about this magnificent ocean liner. ‘She can withstand any storm or wave.’ She was described in one word, ’unsinkable.’

Adam Clarke was a young sales clerk in a store that sold fine silk to the upper class in London England. One day his boss showed him how he could increase sales and profits but subtly stretching the silk as he measured it out. Young Adam looked his boss in the eye and said, ‘sir, your silk may stretch, but my conscience won’t.’

Let’s all protect what God has given us. Heed all the warning signs that show up on your spiritual navigational conscience dashboard.

It’s a privilege to serve you,
Pastor Lloyd