In Flight

I write this as I am sitting on a plane headed back home from a fulfilling week at a conference in Louisville.  (Of course, I posted after I landed J)  Anyway, the routine boarding the plane is pretty much that – routine.  They call your loading zone, they scan your boarding pass, you enter the plane, find your seat, get situated and then wait to take off.  While you are waiting the flight attendant goes over the safety rules.  The first thing that is said is to take out the safety cards to follow along.  As I looked around me, no one took their safety cards out including me.  It is almost an inconvenience to have to sit through the list of instructions.  However, if something was to happen and the safety procedures were needed, we would probably all panic because we weren’t listening when the directions were given.  And of course it would be the airlines fault because we weren’t following along.

I wonder if life isn’t like that.  We have a safety manual.  It is called the Bible.  The safety manual is filled with instructions, hope, promises, wisdom, and so much more; yet, it is an inconvenience for us to open it.  God even gives us “flight attendants” to help us through the instruction manual – AKA – pastors.  But that is an inconvenience too.  We have to make our way to church and sometimes the pastor preaches WAY TO LONG!  Yet, when things go wrong, we panic.  We don’t know where to turn and if only the pastor would have been more helpful or preached on a particular subject we wouldn’t be in this predicament.

It doesn’t have to be this way!  We have a pilot that guides us, comforts us, strengthens us, fills us with wisdom, and has provided us with Hope!  In fact, in Isaiah 30:18  it states, “Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you…”  He is waiting for us!  We don’t even have to “get in line” to board!

Don’t miss the flight!  Take time to listen to the “flight attendants” as God uses them to speak to you.  Don’t be afraid to open the safety manual and truly dig into it for it is filled with so much!  Do continue to build your relationship with your “Pilot” because there is no relationship like the one you can have with Him! 

Cheryl