Our son is a Chief Quartermaster (QMC) in the navy, and part of his job is to make sure their ship safely navigates while at sea. Some of the hardest times to do that is when navigating restricted waters -- when a ship is within 2nm of shoal water or land. Safe speed must be used in restricted waters and Line of Position has to be taken no more than every 3 minutes versus every 3-15 minutes as done while piloting open waters. I know that was a lot of technical stuff that is tough to understand, but this is what I get from that. When the ship is in danger of collision, it must slow it's speed and make sure of where it is in relationship to everything else more often than when it's in open water. The same is true for Christians navigating through this life. We are citizens of heaven, but we are not in heaven. We are in restricted waters. We must be continually checking our position in relationship to the One who knows the way. We do this by reading God's Word (the
I looked, and I thought about it; I saw and I learned this lesson. Proverbs 24:32