Life is like Battleship . . .

One of my favorite games to play growing up was Battleship. If you don’t know, it is a game where you are trying to sink the other player’s fleet of ships. There is no real strategy to the game, except maybe where you place your ships. It is a lot of hits and misses. Eventually in the game you would get to hear your missiles hit the ships, and you would get to hear the computer say “battleship sunk”. What a great feeling it was to know that you had succeeded. A lot of waiting, but to me the reward was worth the wait.

I think that life is a lot like Battleship. There is no real strategy, except maybe where you choose to live, and work, like placing your ships. But even then we don’t know how our choices will ultimately work out; it is a lot of hit and misses. Eventually in life you get to see your choices and decisions work out the way you want, and you get to hear your boss, or spouse say to you good job.

I guess what I am trying to say is that life is a waiting game; we are trying to do the best we can with what we have. Trying to navigate through the sea of life and make the best decisions we can to avoid and sink the devil’s plans (1 Peter 5:8). The wonderful thing for us as Christians is that we are not going about life alone. We have each other to show us were the enemy ships (2 Cor 1:3-4) are and above all we have our Heavenly Father. At the end of this Life, won’t the feeling be great know that you have succeeded, when we hear God say to us “well done, my good and faithful servant; enter into the joy of your master”.

God Bless,

Joshua Birney
Westview House Parent