“For you have only one Master, the Christ” (Matthew 23:10).
Rudyard Kipling wrote a story about a little ship about to go on its first voyage. The captain’s daughter christened the ship and named it “Dimbula.” Then she said to her father, “Now we have a great ship.” The captain replied, “No, daughter, not yet. I must take her to sea.” When he took the ship on her maiden voyage it began to give off creaking sounds which grew louder and louder as though each part was straining and groaning and struggling to fall into its proper place, as though the ship was trying to pull itself together. But after sixteen days at sea, as she sailed back into the harbor, the creaking and the straining and the groaning had been transformed into an even sound — as if to say, “My master has taken me through the rough spots in which everything seemed to be coming apart, and I have become what I have…
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