The Wrong Boat

Don’t take the wrong boat

Yesterday; I watched a film that some guys bought a ticket to have a fantastic trip. Their travel agent lied to them and in the beginning everything was very nice… A very good and beautiful ship… good food … but when they realized what kind of trip was that…it was too late … They were in the middle of the sea. No way to leave that boat.

Yesterday, I also had an experience like that … I got the wrong bus home … fortunately, I realized very soon and could get off the bus and take the right one home.

In our lives, we can take the wrong way, wrong bus, train and sometimes we are able to notice we’ve got the wrong one… but sometimes … it’s too late.

Those boys were cheated by their travel agent … He just wanted to sell the tickets, get his money … He didn’t consider his costumer desire… what they would think and feel later and so on.

In real life there are many travel agents telling you something is good, some place is wonderful, not dangerous and when you get there, you have a great disappointment.

In Hebrews 13:14 we read: Here on earth we do not have a city that lasts for ever, but we are looking for the city that we will have in the future.

About spiritual life, many religions are selling tickets to paradise and people are buying them without knowing what is going to happen in the future… or to where they are going.

There is a way that seemeth right unto man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death. Proverbs 16:25

Religion is men trying to reach God (This is something good) but not in the right way (This is bad).

There are things to be considered before traveling and while traveling … I want you to be aware about them… I want you to get the right destination…

The right way – Jesus said: I am the way, the truth and the life. The only way to the Father is through me. John 14:6 -

The right ticket. -God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son so that whoever believes in Him (Jesus) may not be lost, but have eternal life. John 3:16.

Jesus is the only One who can save people. His name is the only power in the world that has been given to save people. We must be saved through Him. Acts 4:12

Knowing the way. When I got the wrong bus, I soon realized that I had taken the wrong one because I knew the right way…so we must know about the way we are going to
Psalm 119:105 Your word is like a lamp for my feet and a light for my path.

Once found, keep on the way - We have to keep being changed by the Lord to do His will. Romans 12:2

Philippians 2:12-13: Keep on working to complete your salvation with fear and trembling, Because God is working in you to help you want to do and be able to do what pleases Him.

We have to keep going on... we can’t stop. When you plant a seed on the ground you have to continue the work, watering, feeding the plant, cleaning the place and then, after a certain time, you eat the fruit of your work.

Share Fellowship. When we are together, we can help one another to keep on the right way
I John 1:6-7

Hebrews 10:19-25

And what should we do if we have lost the way or if we think that we are not on the right boat / way?

Consider your way – What is the situation now? Where are you? Hidden?
Repent of your sins – Confess that you have sinned. Ask Jesus to forgive you.
Ask Jesus to become your way, to give you salvation
Promise that you are going to follow Him
Give your heart to Him.

Let’s pray.

Dear Jesus

I know you are the only way to God.
I confess that I have walked through wrong ways. I have sinned against you.
I repent now and I ask you to forgive me.
Come and live in my heart.
Teach me to walk in your way.
Send your Holy Spirit to help me to keep going with you.
In your Holy name… Amen