October 19

A sophisticated modern aircraft is a wonder to behold. The control panel has more buttons and switches than the untrained eye can begin to comprehend. Once the pilot has mastered the skill of flying, he can virtually turn the plane loose to fly itself.

Perhaps the most difficult part of flying then is simply trusting the equipment. We are accustomed to gauging our perception by what we see, what we hear, what we understand through our senses, but the pilot cannot trust his senses. He has nothing by which to assess his progress in flight but the equipment.

He must fully rely upon the gauges and dials on his control panel and trust them to do the job they are designed and programmed to perform. In the spirit realm, we, too have a gauge, a guide that is infallible. We must trust it, rather than our feelings or our perceptions.

Psalm 119:50 says, “This is my comfort and my consolation …Your Word revives me and gives me life.” When we can’t trust our senses or our feelings, we have the unshakable Word of the Living God to stand on, to embrace, to trust—it is the control panel that is programmed to deliver us safely to Jesus.