So I just came up with the coolest analogy between what I was reading in the bible today and my all time favorite movie, "Pirates of the Carribean,"...you know the first one. Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one at least, falls under my definition of all that a movie should be! It has sword fights, chase scenes, explosions, and above all else a love story between non other then William Turner and ELizabeth Swan, and who doesn't love the incredibly brilliant, or not so brilliant, Jack sparrow who "says" he is always one step ahead of the rest. But what does any of this have to do with the bible you might ask? well I'll tell ya matey as long as your in for a good ghost story on a foggy night. 

Ok So I was reading Romans chapter 6 which talks about in verse 16 how what we choose to obey becomes our master. If we choose sin we will surely die, but if we choose God to become our master we will receive his approval which means we will receive enteral life with him. 

"Don't you realize that whatever you choose to obey becomes your master? You can choose sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God and receive his approval." Romans 6:16.

I don't know about you but for me this is a powerful statement. I can choose to let my own sinful desires rule over my life or I can choose God who fills me to the brim with Joy and eternal life.

So how does this fit into pirates of the Caribbean, well it reminds me of a line that Barbosa, Captain of the Black Pearl, said to Elizabeth Swan when she responded to him that she hardly believed in ghost stories anymore. Barbossa said: 

Aye! That's what I thought when we were first told the tale. 'Buried on an island of dead that cannot be found, save for those who already know where it is'. Find it we did. There be the chest; inside be the gold; and we took 'em all. We spent them, and traded them, and fretted them away on drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave 'em away, the more we came to realize, the drink would not satisfy food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slague our lust. We are cursed men Miss Turner. Compelled by greed we were, but now, we are consumed by it."

-Captain Barbossa. 

You see, Barbossa learned through his curse what many of us fail to see and some of us never do, that all the sinful desires of our hear can never fully satisfy. We don't have to been cursed pirates to understand that. We keep trying over and over again to fill up that emptiness inside that will, "not satisfy." Not only are they not satisfied but when the moonlight shines on them in the darkness they surround themselves in, they are revealed for who they really are, the undead. We are living but we are dead to the lie that God promises is forever. Life that is fulfilling and holy, meant for us and made by him. And when we follow the desires of our hearts we will live on forever dead, death meaning separation from God.