TITANIC II (English)
Mark Wilkinson purchased a 16-foot boat for fishing and recreation.
Apparently he was not superstitious, because he christened his boat Titanic
II after the ill-fated luxury ship that hit an iceberg and sank in
1912. Titanic II’s maiden voyage out of a harbor in Dorset,
England, went well. But when Wilkinson headed back, the boat started taking on
water. Soon he was clinging to a rail waiting for rescue. Wilkinson reportedly
said, “It’s all a bit embarrassing, and I got pretty fed up with people asking
me if I had hit an iceberg.” This was followed by an eyewitness who said, “It
wasn’t a very big boat—I think an ice cube could have sunk it!”
The story of Titanic II is quite ironic. But it also
makes me think of the original Titanic and the danger of
misplaced trust. The builders of that ocean liner were absolutely confident
that their ship was unsinkable. But how wrong they were! Jeremiah reminds us:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart
departs from the Lord” (Jer. 17:5).
All of us are tempted to seek security in people or things. How often we
need to be reminded to forsake these false confidences and turn back to God.
Are you putting your trust in something other than Him?
Those who put their trust in God will never be disappointed. (RBC)
