Rudderless

That poor young husband. It's tough to be trying to sail without a rudder to guide you. It's actually a feeling a lot of folks know, even if they've never been on a sailboat in their life. In fact, it's our lives that often seem rudderless - drifting - without any real sense of direction. It doesn't matter how big or how small your life is, it can still feel rudderless.

There's this feeling that I call pointlessness - the recurring sense that my life, however full and however successful, all seems so pointless ... missing the meaning that makes it all make sense. And along the way, there have been people and things that have seemed to say, "Trust me" - but they let us down. We're victims of disappointed trust, not sure what where the rudder is that will help us find some direction.

The Bible explains our sense of rudderlessness, our sense of pointlessness when it says, "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way." (Isaiah 53:6) We were created in such a way that our life can only make sense when the One who created us is running it. But we've taken command instead, happy to let God run the universe, but unwilling to let Him run us. So we're drifting, sometimes even shipwrecked. Away from the only person who has the plan for our life. We are, to use the Bible's word for it, "lost."

Then along comes Jesus. He said He had come to "seek and save what was lost." (Luke 19:10) That saving involved the total sacrifice of His life for us - dying on the cross to absorb the awful death penalty for our spiritual rebellion. His cross became the bridge to the Creator that we've been lonely for all these years. So, in John 10:10, our word for today from the Word of God, Jesus is able to say, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." In other words, the life you were created for.

When Jesus says, "Trust Me," you can - because this Man who loved you enough to die for you will never do you wrong. But you're rudderless until you anchor your life to Him. You do that by putting your total trust in Him to forgive every wrong thing you've ever done and to remove forever the wall between you and God. There's no religion involved here. It's a life-giving, love relationship with Jesus Christ - which you can begin right where you are.

If you're ready to begin your personal relationship with Jesus, tell Him that. And I'd love to send my booklet about this relationship called "Yours For Life" if you'll just let me know you want it. The pointless voyage can end this very day - if you'll let Jesus take the helm of your life. He'll take you where you were made to be.

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