THE
PIRATE EXPERIENCE
Experience they say is the best teacher. There are
disgusting experiences. There are experiences called the fiery test tube. There
are unpleasant experiences. There are experience a man faces that shakes his
faith. There are experiences that bring out the good, bad and ugly. Eleanor
Roosevelt wrote “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the
utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience”.
Also, Ralph Waldo Emeron wrote “All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator
for all I have not seen”. Everyone will surely face one experience or the
other; but trusting in GOD makes one come out strong and victorious in any experience
he/she face. Job faced his own experience, but he was steadfast and believed in
the Redeemer. He said in Job 23 vs.
8-12: Look, I go forward, but He is not there, And backward, but I cannot
perceive Him; When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold him, when He
turns to the right hand, I cannot see him. But He knows the way I take; when He
has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to his steps; I
have kept his way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the
commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my
necessary food. He was tested and he came forth as gold, because his foots
follow the steps of GOD. He came forth as gold in his experience because he didn’t
turn aside. Many turn away from GOD when they are faced by unpleasant experience.
He came forth as gold because he didn’t depart from GOD’s commandment and
treasure GOD’s words than his food.
That
fateful morning, I believed in the Redeemer that keeps Israel and neither
sleeps nor slumbers and told him to see me through my trip from the island
where I was to the upland. It’s almost an hour plus voyage on the sea. However,
before my trip there have been news about pirates raiding the sea and
dispossessing people of their goods and belongings. But I was rest assured of
what the Psalmist wrote in Psalm 23 vs.
4: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil; for you are with me; Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. On our
voyage, about thirty minute the boat driver suddenly changed our course and said
the pirate’s boat is approaching; then he started heading back towards the
jetty where we came from; people on the boat were in disarray. I was like what
is happening, but I believed in GOD. Some were clamoring and shouting that the boat
driver should run faster, some were calling the name of JESUS because we saw
the said pirate’s boat following our boat. Suddenly, our boat engine stopped
amidst the sea and the said pirate’s boat met our boat. At that point people in
the boat hiding their valuables; fortunately for us the said pirate’s boat wasn’t
that of a pirate; it was a passenger’s boat just like ours. Everybody’s mind
was brought back to rest again and our course was changed back again. What an
Experience! No matter the experience you find yourself trust GOD and He will
never fail you; provided you treasure his words, obey his commandments, follow
and walk in his steps. Kindly, check and buy this e-book of mine clicking on the link
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