This Week’s Thought

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By Brad Campbell –

Just a thought to help start your week.

While in Alaska, we saw many beautiful sights.  In the waters, especially as we navigated the passages near glaciers and around Juneau, we could see those very large chunks of ice.  Now, to a good old Mississippi-raised and Alabama-settled boy like myself, even those large chunks of ice looked like giant icebergs to me.  The blue colors in the ice make them look beautiful, distracting you somewhat from their very real danger.

Ice bergs, after all, are the very reason the remains of the great Titanic now sit at the bottom of the ocean.  What is especially intriguing about an iceberg is that at least three quarters of it are hiding below the surface of the water.  The tip of the iceberg may look pretty, but the dangers lie below the surface.

Sin seems to hit us the same way.  We see those things and are often tempted by those things that look good, seem amazing, and are possibly very different from anything we have experienced before, and the curiosity draws us in.  But we only see the “tip of the iceberg,” if you will.  There is so much more danger hiding below the surface, waiting to strike and do its best to sink us.

We must beware the icebergs in life.  As little children, we are tempted to touch each and every thing we come past.  Then our parents tell us to look but don’t touch.  In reference to the icebergs, we may look as our great ship of life passes by, but getting close enough to touch could be dangerous, detrimental, and even deadly.  

The captain of our ship knew how to safely navigate those Alaskan waters to keep us safe from the hidden dangers of the icebergs.  Trust the Great Captain of your ship to guide you safely through as well.

Just a thought.

This Week’s Thought

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Trail

By Brad Campbell –

Just a thought to help start your week.

You are all aware of those “warnings” on certain product packaging that are apparently meant to keep us from our own state of pitiful uselessness.  For instance, the shampoo bottle that says, “Don’t drink this!”  Wow.  Or the sign posted next to the local lunch grill counter that says, “May be hot!”  May be?  Well, I would hope so.  Sadly, the dumbing down of society has led to a rampant state of ignorance yet unparalleled in my lifetime.  

But then, there are signs like the one I’ve shared here.  There, beside the clean dirt trail through the wooded area ahead, is a sign that simply says, “Trail.”  You would think this sign, placed alongside an old trail adjacent to the Natchez Trace, would be unnecessary.  Yet, some would rely upon such a sign to make sure they are heading in the right direction.

Ah, isn’t that the purpose of the sign?  It is posted there to make like easier for some who might wander away from the trail.

The Bible, heralded as a totally useless book of unimportant little stories and fairy tales by some in our world, is there because so many of us would go wandering off the trail if we didn’t access and read it regularly.  Why should we have to be reminded to get into God’s Word before heading out into our world?  Can’t we navigate the trails and pathways on our own?  You can certainly try, if you want.  But I’d rather follow the directional signs that have been wisely placed beside the trail for me!

Don’t dismiss those little signs or nudges and reminders from God’s written Word and from those good friends He places along our path this week.  Heed the warnings.  Follow directions.  Remain on the trail.  After all, someone before you was wise enough to mark it for your protection – not to showcase your ignorance, but to make life so much easier.

See you on the trail.

Just a thought.