Who do You Trust to Fly the Plane?

When you board the cross country flight, you are willingly putting your physical self in a compromising position which goes against our natural world. Throughout thousands if years of history, anytime a physical body was in a position high above the ground and moved out into the air, the next step would be a great fall to the ground or water below. But when you board the plane you are expecting something quite different to take place. You expect to soar high into the air and actually stay up there until you get to your destination! You are willing to bet your very life upon the hope that this will actually happen the way it's supposed to. You are putting your trust upon several factors: (1) a century of flight indicates the majority of planes take off, fly, and land the way they're supposed to, (2) the plane you're on has been carefully inspected and maintained, and (3) the highly skilled and trained pilots know exactly what they're doing.

This is one area where you don't want to be in charge. You would rather have the pilots fly the plane instead of flying it yourself... or the person next to you, or even the attendant. Your faith and trust is in someone other than yourself. You allow them to be in control.

In many of the important areas of our life we allow someone else to dictate and be in control. We would never fathom of performing surgery upon our self, but we willingly allow the professional surgeon to cut into us and do what has to be done. What it boils down to are the credentials of the person we are trusting. We trust the pilot to skillfully fly the plane but we would never think of him as performing our surgery! It's all in the credentials.

When our life is on the line, we have to put our trust in someone who has the right credentials... we don't always have any other option. But, we also know that there will actually come a time in our life that our life will come to an end, whether it's up on a plane, on an operating table, or at the end of sixty/seventy/eighty-something years of normal living.

Some folks believe when that time arrives for them, all things will cease and come to an end for their self. Other folks believe in all types of varieties and flavors of an afterlife. I personally believe that even at that time, the time when we depart this present life, that it's still best to trust and have faith in the one who has the right credentials. Though every type of person imaginable can tell us about their personal view of what the afterlife holds, I feel there has only been one person throughout every time and place who indeed holds the certificate which proves and verifies their worth in matters of what follows this life. I absolutely believe he is the only one to ever enter and depart this world with the certification to guide, lead, and be the source of our continuation after we breathe our last breath while here. You've heard about Jesus... don't play down his importance, he alone can pilot the plane.

(art from "But Jesus Paid it All" video)