The Anchored Boat

From: Moody's Stories: Volume 2 By: Dwight Lyman Moody

• 1 min. read • grade level: 4

1 John 2:15; 1¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1 John 2:15) John 5:4⁴For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. (John 5:4); Proverbs 28:13¹³He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. (Proverbs 28:13)

I once heard of two men who were under the influence of liquor. They came down at night to where their boat was tied. They wanted to return home, so they got in and began to row. They pulled away hard all night, wondering why they never got to the other side of the bay. When the gray dawn of morning broke, behold! they had never loosed the mooring line or raised the anchor!

That’s just the way with many who are striving to enter the kingdom of heaven. They cannot believe, because they are tied to this world.

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