Where Are We Going?

What would be the greatest disservice that man can do for his prospective mate?

Some may say being unfaithful or yet, being untruthful. I think the greatest disservice that a man can do for his mate (for that matter, himself) is to not know himself.

Who does God say I am? Who do I say I am? What is God's vision for me? What are my ambitions? Without having first sought the answers for these fundamental questions how can I be all that I am to be ?

The man's role in the relationship is to captain the ship. To steer the ship and to set its course, the captain must first know where the ship is supposed to go. How do you plot a course to nowhere? An important consideration would be, "Who owns the ship?" Where the ship is to go is determined by the owner of the ship. If I own the ship, where do I want it to go? If I don't own the ship, where does the owner want this ship to go? As the captain, I should want to go where the ship's owner wants it to go. If I keep steering the ship in a different direction than that set by the owner, I won't be the captain of this ship for too long. In both the above situations, as captain, I still need to know where the ship is going. So who owns this ship?

As a Christian, God owns my ship. He bought it with His own blood. So, where does He want it to go? Am I now taking it there? There will come a time that the captain may take on crew, starting with the captain's mate. Hopefully, the mate already knows where she wants to go and then all she needs to do is to find out where the ship is going. If it is going her way, then she can sign on. But how will she know if the captain doesn't know himself? How does he tell her what he doesn't yet know?