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THE PIRATE EXPERIENCE

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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