Happy Monday. What is your seat assignment in life today? As long as we are still in this life, we are on God’s flight path and are ever learning.
Could this be a time of “smooth sailing” when life is good? Wonderful! It will be easy to coast along or perhaps become lazy. For some, this may be a rough journey. Turbulent times are here and cannot be avoided. Some might be trying to get out of their seats or abandon their flight path.
This reminds me of one of my favorite sermons that my husband preached titled, “May I Change Seats, Please?” In this sermon, Dr. Hyles told of how he was seated in an uncomfortable situation on a long airplane flight. He summoned the flight attendant to ask for a change of seats. She could not and would not accommodate the change because the plane was full. She instructed him to stay in his seat and make the best of it. By the way, this sermon will make the listener laugh and learn.
Some may be asking today, “May I change seats, Lord?” There may be discomfort, fear, weakness, uncertainty, or pain, and they want out of it. However, God is our wise Pilot Who says, “Stay where you are. The only way out is through. I see your situation from a different perspective, and you need to trust Me.”
When these testing times come, we see how weak we are and turn back to the One Who said in Isaiah 43:2, When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned;… We may not always be as comfortable as we might like to be, but that will not prevent us from reaching our destination. Trust the Pilot! Stay the course! We will make it through!
by Beverly Hyles
From the Mondays with Beverly blog. Reprinted with permission.
