Hello ,
In 1992, a cargo
ship left Hong Kong, bound for the U.S. While in route, the ship hit rough seas, and several shipping containers were washed overboard and lost at sea. One of the lost shipping containers held 28,000 plastic bath toys-rubber ducks, turtles, and frogs. The container broke open, and the toys were set free into the Pacific. From there, they began to travel.
A few lucky ducks landed in Hawaii, some made shore in Alaska, others beached in South America, Australia and the Pacific Northwest. The plastic toys have been found frozen in Arctic ice. Others made their way to Scotland and Newfoundland, in the Atlantic.
There are also some 2,000 plastic toys that still bob around in the
North Pacific Gyre-a vortex of currents which stretches between Japan, southeast Alaska, Kodiak and the Aleutian Islands. The churning gyre holds a floating, plastic trash heap about the size of Texas.
Even 20 years later, some of the rubber ducks still break free of the gyre's grasp. It occasionally happens-a 20-year-old rubber duck washes up on
the Alaskan shore. But it doesn't just happen and the ducks don't set themselves free. Instead, it takes something external-a shift in the wind, a storm that blows across, marine life that bumps a duck out of the current. If not for an outside influence, the ducks would stay trapped in the floating trash heap.*
As human beings, we share a similar
experience (of sorts,) of being trapped in our human condition, lost and circling in the the clutches of sin and struggle here on planet earth. We CANNOT save ourselves. We MUST have outside help beyond our meager abilities when it comes to salvation.
God brings a power beyond our abilities that can take us to safe harbor for
eternity.
Have a great day and God bless!
Pastor
Mike / The Open Word
