Stuck !

 

The container ship remained stuck for days, and much effort was put into refloating it. It was a huge ship, far larger than the canal had been designed for, and one headline showed the ship’s hull and a tiny excavator, advising that “You need a bigger digger!”. The reason was the thousands of containers piled on its deck, and their sheer weight. Four hundred million tons? It was all a bit David and Goliath. I wonder if our spiritual lives become weighed down, preventing us from serving God as intended? The weight of our failures and sins can drag us down so that we feel unworthy or incapable. 

What’s in our containers, piled up as we grow older, maybe we don’t really notice their presence or our navigation errors in life and carry on sailing until we have a crash because their combined presence makes it hard for us to change direction or even stop? We can all get stuck sometimes. No wonder that Jesus said “Unless you become like little children you cannot enter the Kingdom of God”. So we are challenged this Easter, in the season of resurrection, to turn and repent, to follow the way of Jesus in newness. Jesus died on the cross because of the sin of all humanity, and we can come to him for forgiveness. 

Let Jesus raise you up, or – to continue with the nautical idea - let him refloat your boat!