02/15/22 I'D RATHER SAIL THAN BAIL

02/15/22 I'D RATHER SAIL THAN BAIL

If you have a leaky, dilapidated boat, you have to spend time bailing instead of fishing or transporting. Bailing is not a waste of time. If you don't bail, you sink. If you sink, you drown. Not keeping your boat ship shape is a waste of time.

Bailing is a self-saving action. Bailing is not productive in feeding yourself or accomplishing your goals.

When an individual or a family or a church is required to bail instead of sail, then the real purpose, the real job, the real mission is set aside.

Live in such a way that you don't have to spend your time, your life, BAILING.
Live in such a way that your family does not have to spend its time, BAILING.
Live in such a way that your church does not have to spend its time, BAILING.

Some people are committed to a life of bailing. Many times there are holes, bad planks, or rotten timbers that need fixing, and therefore time is taken away from sailing or fishing. Souls are dying because the rescue vessel is either on the rails or being bailed.

Ministries are crippled because the energy is spent on bailing rather than serving.
Responding to urgent issues (bailing) is not so much about broken or damaged equipment as it is about lives that are not fit for service, and time needs to be spent rescuing the careless, the self-centered, the uncommitted ship-mate.

This is why we often see Captains who are very demanding, rigid, exacting of their crew. They know that slack hands lead to disaster.

A rescue vessel is expected to have wounded, disabled people aboard, but the crew ought not to be the ones who are constantly in need of rescuing, mending, or instructing. The more efficient and more effective a rescue vessel will be is determined by the readiness and capabilities of the crew.