Transcript: The imagery that I’m going to be talking about in this post that you can use during a meditation time is the imagery of Jesus as the captain of a boat.

So, one important themes around the Bible is something that A.W. Tozer talks about in the beginning of his book. I think it’s called Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire. He talks about the importance as Christians of knowing that we need a guide.

to lead us through this life. We can’t go on our own. We need the Angel of the Lord, is what he’s talking about. We need Jesus to guide us through. So that works with imagery of Jesus being a shepherd. If you can see in some of the pictures that I posted with the hymns that I posted on here, there’s a lot of images of pathways. So our journey through this life, you can see it as being on a pathway through with the shepherd is guiding you.

What I was going to talk about in this post is another type of guide. It’s like if Jesus is the captain of your ship. He’s guiding you on a journey. So. I think that I read about this image in a writing by John Owen. It might have been in his book about spiritual mindedness. So you’re uh when you believe in Jesus, you trust in him for your salvation. It’s like he becomes the captain of your ship. So you’re On the shore. And you look out. And you see the ocean. And you’re trusting Jesus. Because you’re getting into the boat with him to go on this voyage.

You’re going on a voyage over the treacherous seas, and you don’t know the way.

Remember, faith is trusting that Jesus Christ is who he says he is, and that he’s going to do what he said he’s going to do.

So you’re Placing all of your trust, you’re trusting your all to him. You’re trusting the safety of your soul to him. Salvation, you’re trusting him for the salvation of your soul. You get in the boat with him. And, again, we don’t know where we’re going. We don’t know the way. He leads us through it, and we’re trusting that he’s guiding us to heaven. So when you’re meditating on that in your You know, you’re doing the calming breathing and you’re focusing your mind on one object. You also think through, like, what you feel.

And if you’re on that ship and you see that a storm’s coming up ahead, you’re learning to look to your captain. So if you practice what that would feel like, practice thinking about that. Even if you spend just like 5 or 10 minutes doing that. Or 15 if you can.

you’ll find that you’re training your mind to look to Jesus in all things. And during your day, if you experience a stressor, you’ll start looking to him faster and remembering to stop and pray. So agin with this imagery. It would be, you’re in that ship.

Being out in the middle of the ocean, you can’t see anything on the horizon, any way that you look, you’re out there.

The sea can be stormy at times. And you don’t know the way. So just, you can connect with that feeling and then that feeling of reassurance that, you know, Jesus knows the way. You’re there with your captain. He’s going to guide you through. Your destination is heaven. That’s the destination of that voyage, you trust that he’s going to get you to the port of heaven. There’s a lot of hymns that talk about the port of heaven.

So I think I’ve posted some hymns on here that have that imagery of Jesus as the Captain, and there’s a lot of hymns that talk about it. And it’s something that, again,If you just spend five or ten minutes just thinking through that image and thinking through what you feel and training yourself to listen to Him. It can make a difference the next time you experience the stressor. Remembering to stop and look to Him to guide you through. So, I hope this And again, there are several hymns on here that you can listen to and think through that imagery of Jesus as the captain of your soul.