From Above!
An Online Ministry for the Men of CLF
When we venture into the world to earn a living, we all face our own unique set of challenges. As you can see, my office has a great view! But some days are more challenging than others. Long days away from home, weekly hotel stays, continuous jetlag and stress are some of the challenges we face in the travel industry. As men, sometimes our life is not aligning with our testimony...what people see on the outside is far from the feelings and emotions we are experiencing on the inside...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Guidance Part 2
Proverbs 3:5 says we are to "Trust in the Lord with all of our heart". Though we have many voices competing for our attention, the Lord knows that only a fixed attentiveness to His influences will give us the strength and peace we need to be healthy in the faith. Even attention to good things can distract us from His best, therefore, we are encouraged to know and respond to His voice above all the others... "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path".
In the early 1980's I was flying for a small airline in the Pacific Northwest that operated 9 seat twin engine aircraft that we flew single pilot. One night I received a vector from an air traffic controller that headed us for a mountain range. The controller intended to turn us away from this heading after he had achieved spacing with other aircraft, but he forgot about us. I reminded him that we were on a dangerous course, and he immediately turned us to a safe heading.
His voice is one of those human voices we learn to trust. We are taught to trust doctors, firemen, policemen ,teachers, parents, pastors and the like. We are taught to listen to their voice and act on their advice for our health and safety. But because they are human...they fail with regularity.
But the voice of the Spirit of God never fails to guide us with perfect personal and intimate foreknowledge. Think of the amazing privilege to have a voice in our life that always knows what is best for us and can never be in error! A voice that is motivated for our highest good spoken by the One who loves us perfectly. How can we not listen with all our hearts and obey with gratitude the words of His voice? We forget his desire to speak to us and the simplicity with which He offers Himself. We lose His voice in the daily routine... we miss Him because we are human, living in flawed sinful flesh. But He is ever waiting for us to hear and respond to His voice. What a gift of Himself we have received!
Here are some thoughts on keeping on in Him:
Thomas Kelly wrote,"There is a way of ordering our thoughts on more than one level at a time. On the natural level we can be thinking and working, and on the other we can we can be in prayer with a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings."
Listen...
Frank Laubach says, " I never lived until I reached the place where I wholly resolved, and then re-resolved, that I would find God's will, and that I would do it though ever fiber in me said no, and that I would win the battle in my thoughts."
Obey....
Ever hear someone say the Lord told me thus and so and then it fails to come to pass? We begin to think it foolish to confess what we think we have heard from God. But who's the fool...the one who seeks God and misses the mark, or the one who says God does not speak at all? We MUST believe that God really does speak to us! We are to know the voice of the Shepard and scripture says we can.
Have faith in Him...
In the early 1980's I was flying for a small airline in the Pacific Northwest that operated 9 seat twin engine aircraft that we flew single pilot. One night I received a vector from an air traffic controller that headed us for a mountain range. The controller intended to turn us away from this heading after he had achieved spacing with other aircraft, but he forgot about us. I reminded him that we were on a dangerous course, and he immediately turned us to a safe heading.
His voice is one of those human voices we learn to trust. We are taught to trust doctors, firemen, policemen ,teachers, parents, pastors and the like. We are taught to listen to their voice and act on their advice for our health and safety. But because they are human...they fail with regularity.
But the voice of the Spirit of God never fails to guide us with perfect personal and intimate foreknowledge. Think of the amazing privilege to have a voice in our life that always knows what is best for us and can never be in error! A voice that is motivated for our highest good spoken by the One who loves us perfectly. How can we not listen with all our hearts and obey with gratitude the words of His voice? We forget his desire to speak to us and the simplicity with which He offers Himself. We lose His voice in the daily routine... we miss Him because we are human, living in flawed sinful flesh. But He is ever waiting for us to hear and respond to His voice. What a gift of Himself we have received!
Here are some thoughts on keeping on in Him:
Thomas Kelly wrote,"There is a way of ordering our thoughts on more than one level at a time. On the natural level we can be thinking and working, and on the other we can we can be in prayer with a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings."
Listen...
Frank Laubach says, " I never lived until I reached the place where I wholly resolved, and then re-resolved, that I would find God's will, and that I would do it though ever fiber in me said no, and that I would win the battle in my thoughts."
Obey....
Ever hear someone say the Lord told me thus and so and then it fails to come to pass? We begin to think it foolish to confess what we think we have heard from God. But who's the fool...the one who seeks God and misses the mark, or the one who says God does not speak at all? We MUST believe that God really does speak to us! We are to know the voice of the Shepard and scripture says we can.
Have faith in Him...
