My dear friend,
I am sure that you are wondering what this is all about. In one sense it is all very simple. It is all about you. However, that does not fully answer the question, “What’s the point?” The complete answer is not quite so simple. It is not something that can be explained in few words, not even in a single blog post. Nonetheless, I will, in this post, do my best to give you a reasonable overview of the purpose behind it all.
What is it that I mean when I say, “Raising the awareness and understanding of the Word of God using the Earth itself as a pulpit?”
As it states on my LinkedIn Company Profile:
“There is a threefold purpose:
• To test (prove) the love of God;
• To make known the Word of God; and
• To serve as a vehicle for His love and His Word.”
God through His infinite mercy uses the weak and the foolish to confound the strong and the wise (as Paul the Apostle writes in First Corinthians 1:27). If it were possible that a man could complete a solo human powered polar circumnavigation of the Earth, only by God’s mercy and grace could it be done. Only by God’s mercy and grace would one even dare to attempt it. It is by the infinite love of God that Jesus gave His life to make the impossible possible. Likewise, it is simply by His love that one would risk his own life to make known the love and the Word of God.
In 2019 Fiann Paul and his five companions successfully crossed the Drake Passage (the ocean passage between Cape Horn, Chile and Charles Point, mainland Antarctic peninsula). This unassisted ocean rowing adventure has been labeled the “Impossible Row.” Of course, they did not have to row back to Chile. When they arrived at the Antarctic peninsula a ship brought them and their boat back home. While there are many other accounts of similarly heroic feats in the arctic regions (and other remote areas of the world), the accounts of these adventures are truly remarkable in every case. The brave men and women that attempt to conquer these challenges endure extraordinarily difficult circumstances, and when things go wrong, it can be disastrous.
The idea of circumnavigating the entire Earth via the South and the North poles is categorically insane, regardless of situation. To attempt to do something like this alone is even more improbable, and to do it without any assistance is unquestionably impossible. It is impossible for man, but it is not impossible for God.
Hence, that is fundamentally what this blog is about. It is my story of the errand that God has set before me, to conquer the Globe in human conquest. Except that it is not possible for a man to do such a thing. There are many men that would like to think that they could, but they would not be true to themselves in believing so. I know for a certainty that I cannot do such a thing. If I had all the money in world at my fingertips, I could not conquer the Globe in my own human power. Even if I was wise enough to master each challenge, time is against me. If I was a young enough person to avoid the press of time, then I would lack the wisdom that I need. Regardless, happenstance and fortune would be against me in either case.
When an adventurer embarks on any such conquest, he is attempting to cheat fortune … to beat the odds. There is always a significant risk that he will fail or parish in the attempt. The more an adventurer continues to beat the odds, the greater the likelihood that the odds will catch up with him. With a quest such as this one, circumnavigating the Globe, the odds of failure stack up quite high. Even if that adventurer survives his failures, time and expense take their tolls. A man could easily spend his entire lifetime trying to achieve the finish line and never quite be able to get there. More than likely, he would parish somewhere along the way, even if he was regarded the best of the best.
Therefore, God is not sending an individual that has the credentials or the pedigree, else God would not receive the glory. Yet if He sends someone like myself, then there can be no other explanation for the success. It could only be a miracle of God.
Yet what would be God’s purpose for using a broken and trodden down instrument as I to send His message out to all those that would hear? I wish that I could give you a complete answer for that question, but I do not fully understand His ways.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
Isaiah 55:9 KJV
so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts.”
Nevertheless, I think that I can make suggestion for a few of His purposes. If I were even able to get my boat into the water and launch out from Singapore in the summer of 2022 (as planned), that would be a miracle in itself. If I were to make it all the way to Australia that would get some attention, indeed. Would I not become a fascination to the world abroad? Imagine the headlines:
“Over the Hill Man Quits His Cyber Security Career to Circumnavigate the Earth”
Okay, maybe I would not be enticed to click on a news feed link like this, but if I saw a video clip on the news about it or if a friend told me about it, I would be curious to learn about the eccentric person behind such a strange tale.
Why would God want His messenger to gain this kind of attention? It is because He wants His word to heard. There are a lot of people in this modern world that are not hearing the Word of God, because the traditional church has lost its effectiveness. God has continually been advancing many other means of spreading His Word in the last several years. This is simply a way of progressing with that trend, and I think that we are going to see much more of these types of methods used by God in coming times.
How will God use this as a means of spreading His Word? In short, I will simply say that I will be His mouthpiece. Remember, that I once told you that I would even read the Word of God to you? That is all that I can say for the moment. (Those particular details will come in March.)
This is the sum of it all: If I am faithful to give out the Word of God according to His will and purpose, He will continue to bless me in my efforts to achieve the impossible. When God makes the impossible possible, He proves His love towards me (His faithful servant), and, most of all, He proves His love for you. Remember, how that I told you that God saved me from my own sin? He will save you also, my dear friend, if you put your trust in Him. God loves you, and He is going to prove it to you through my impossible errand.
Love Always,
Dale 😊
Come back tomorrow for another blog post with continuing details and explanation.
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