One
thing that is a natural analogy is the nature of cruises in general. There are
so many people on the trip from all over the world. I met people from Germany, Japan,
Columbia, Philippines, South Africa, the UK, the US and elsewhere. People were from
different walks of life and different ages. This reminded me of the Kingdom of
Heaven and how, Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave
nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ
Jesus.”
I was also reminded that as is pointed out in Ecclesiastes 9:2-3:
“All share a common
destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the
unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good,
so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.
This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun:
The same destiny overtakes all.”
It
doesn’t matter what people do on the cruise – there were more activities than one
could possibly do even if they wanted to do them all. Some people could have
spent the whole time in their rooms; some people could have gone on every shore
excursion - dog sleds, helicopters, hikes – or visited every museum or saw every
show. Some people could have eaten and drank so much that they couldn’t move
whereas others could have spent their time doing abs workouts and Tai Chi. I
could easily make the point that this is what life is like. We all board the
cruise ship of our life and we are all going to get off – the revivalist would
then ask us this question, when your temporal cruise ends, what will your eternal
destination be? This is important. What is your answer?
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