The old mug is filled with Door County Jingle Bell Java today. Friday is here and tonight is a Christmas get together with Rene's family. Off to work I go and then it's home to the stove!!!
Last week when we were in Florida there were a couple of nights and mornings that greeted us with some pretty heavy fog. In the morning while listening to the news we heard about the fog causing traveling delays around the United States. It was nothing to mess with.
Yesterday I was speaking with a pilot friend of mine and he was telling me that one of the hardest things he ever learned to do was to land his aircraft in the fog, not being able to see the airstrip. He was telling us that he had to learn to trust the plane's instruments and the instructions from the air traffic controller. The plane was equipped with everything he needed. But it was hard to not rely on his own emotions and instincts. Trusting the instruments was very difficult for him to do.
Life is the same way. We all want to trust our own inclinations and emotions while making decisions on life. We want to trust our own good judgment in how to behave and what is right and wrong.
But God has given us the perfect package of instruments to help us navigate through life, it's choices and it's struggles. It is the 66 books of the Bible. The perfect instrument panel for life. God speaks to us through His word and is just like the air traffic controller. We don't actually see Him, but He is there 24/7. He gets us through the good and bad times. We just need to trust in the Word and lean on God for all understanding.
2 Timothy 3:16-17New International Version (NIV)
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work
This trust comes with practice. We need to trust God and His Word in all things. The more we do, the easier it gets.
Fly high today,
Marty
Great story! Love this.
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