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Final Port-of-Call and more (Galatians 3:28 and Ecclesiastes 9:2-3)

 

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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