Blind Faith

Over the past few months, I have seen the inside of a plane more often than not. You go through the same routine. Arrive at the airport, check the bags in, go through security, grab a Starbucks then wait in line to board the plane. Then comes the time to get on the plane. You walk past more air stewards than you can count, walk up the steps to the plane and get pointed to your seat. After a while they demonstrate what happens if a crash happens. (Fingers crossed it never does!) Another 15 minutes pass and we take off, we are in the sky and heading to our destination. It was at this point the thought came to me, we haven't once saw the pilot yet. The person who we have entrusted to get us from point A to point B, at 350mph, 20,000ft in the air, and we don't know who he is. Thats a fairly big ask there, yet we do it every single time we get on a plane. We trust the pilot 100% that he will get us there safely, on the right path and at exactly the right time to land.

That is a little bit like our own christian walk. We can't see God, but we know he is there. We trust Him to get us from point A to point B. Sometimes there is a little turbulence along the way, but we just put on our seatbelts, sit still and wait for the storm to pass, all while the pilot is navigating us to safety.

For me, even though I can't physically see God, I can hear his reassuring voice telling me that He has me, He is in control and he will get me to where He wants me to be. That I am following the plan that He has set out for me.

This is called faith, blind faith some people would say. Next time you get on a plane, remember you don't need to see the pilot to know that you will get from A to B, but you just need to trust him.