Gulliver is definitely one of the most interesting visitors to our Animal Crossing islands… each time we find him he is face down in the sand, disoriented, and in desperate need of help. He always has a lot of different reasons for why he has arrived to our island in this condition, but whether it was a navigational mistake or just an error in judgment, he ends up crash landed on our beach all the same. The good news is that with a little work we can get him back on his feet and onto his ship again… the bad news is that he never learns from this experience, living his life in a perpetual cycle of preventable shipwreck.

The most painful mistakes that I’ve made in life are when I have made the decision to “follow my heart”, believing that it would lead me to my best destiny and a happy ending. But every one of the decisions I have made without the leadership of Christ have always resulted in a “shipwreck”… even the ones made with the best of intentions. The only way to break free of this endless cycle of moving from one shipwreck to another is to stop allowing our heart’s desires to guide us and fully follow the Lord’s navigational guidance He’s given us in His Word and through prayers that are fully submitted to His will. Our heart isn’t qualified to be our North Star, so let’s give Him control of our ship. He’ll never steer us wrong.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17:9-10

Having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck. 1 Timothy 1:19

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