This world is spiraling downward and becoming worse as it approaches its point of impact. Yet most of us foolishly believe shifting our weight from one side of our seat to the other and holding tighter to the armrests, we can bring it back to normal. At such times, the only rational thing to do is trust your pilot, the actual one at the controls.
We are the last to admit, if ever, that we aspire to be the one in control. Whether it’s people or happenings, we wish our hand to be on the throttle. Even in out of control situations we ridiculously think we can bring things to a safe conclusion. In spite of the fact some of us have been in a thousand crashes, during times we took the Captain’s seat.
God wants us to trust Him at the controls. From Genesis to Revelation, God places His people in circumstances beyond their control. He does this both collectively, as Israel at the Red Sea, and individually, like Daniel in the den of lions. At such times, some of us shamefully “reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.”
But the Bible gives us an object we can learn from. When little eaglets are pushed out of their comfortable nest into a frightful free-fall, they find their mother has spread her wings under them, as a safety net, so to speak. And so it is with the people of God. In that horrific spin downward, just before that dreaded moment we find, “Underneath [are] the everlasting arms.”
an Aged Saint
WOW!!!
Great exhortation and a very vivid description of human folly. When people view themselves wiser than the Creator, the result is always bleak. May by God's grace the elect continue to learn to trust and obey and wait on Him patiently.