{"id":609,"date":"2012-11-08T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T02:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theholtrowlandfoundation.org\/?p=609"},"modified":"2014-12-09T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:50:51","slug":"whos-flying-your-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtrowlandfoundation.org\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Who’s flying your plane?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been another busy week with people consumed with talk about our\u00a0world and the future. I try to stay away from watching the news during weeks like this because it is so easy for me to feel anxious just listening to the news reporters. My personality is one that\u00a0wants to “do” something right away about the wrong things that I see on\u00a0the news\u00a0and in everyday life. When I hear about wrong situations or “evil\u00a0plans<\/strong>” that are succeeding, I want to scream, “Hey, I’m not stupid! I can see what you are doing, and you won’t get away with it for long.”<\/p>\n

I wish I wasn’t that way. I wish I was……..you know, carefree, easy-going, and\u00a0slow<\/em> to get\u00a0upset.\u00a0The Bible tells me that I should be quick to listen and slow to anger, but I\u00a0believe that\u00a0God knows it is harder for some people more than others\u00a0to be calm and quiet. Ha!\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 Regardless of my many imperfections and\u00a0my\u00a0failure\u00a0to be all that I know God wants me to be, I am trying to\u00a0control myself when I feel my anxiousness rising, along with my temper. I\u00a0try to remember that despite how I feel on the inside, God has things on the outside under control.<\/p>\n

My feelings this week\u00a0about uncertainty in the future got me thinking about a\u00a0devotion that I once read about a little boy on an airplane. The little boy was a passenger\u00a0on an airplane flight when he was observed by a lady sitting nearby. The lady noticed that the little boy was\u00a0traveling\u00a0with no parents near him on the plane. As he sat\u00a0alone in the seat he was busy coloring a picture in a coloring book.\u00a0The\u00a0little fellow seemed unfazed by people boarding the plane as they squeezed by. As the\u00a0plane lifted off and traveled\u00a0through the air the little boy just continued to\u00a0be absorbed in his work of coloring between the lines. He worked intently on his picture totally blocking out\u00a0any distractions. During the middle of the flight, the plane began to encounter some major turbulence. The plane started\u00a0moving to and fro and all the passengers\u00a0began to feel a bit uneasy. As the turbulence worsened the little boy appeared\u00a0to be even more absorbed in his work of trying to hold the crayon and color his picture neatly.\u00a0The child showed no emotion, no concern, and certainly no fear despite the\u00a0uncertain situation on the plane.<\/p>\n

The lady who had been watching the little boy was feeling quite uneasy herself with all the shaking of the plane. When she could focus on the little boy\u00a0she noticed that the child’s\u00a0expression never changed during the long minutes of turbulent tossing.\u00a0 Once things calmed down\u00a0and the clear light was back on for passenegers to move freely about the plane, the lady couldn’t help herself any longer. She got up from her seat and moved toward the child.<\/p>\n

“Little boy,” she said, “I couldn’t help but notice that you are sitting all alone on this plane. And, I have been watching you for quite a while. I know you have really been enjoying your coloring book, and you have been working so hard to color neatly. I’m sure you enjoy coloring a lot, but I couldn’t help but notice that when the plane was being tossed to and fro and things got a little scary, you just kept coloring without\u00a0looking afraid. Little boy, weren’t you even a little scared when the plane was\u00a0shaking? Weren’t you afraid that something bad might happen to the plane?”<\/p>\n

The little boy looked up at the lady and\u00a0with all seriousness\u00a0said, “No mam, I wasn’t scared a bit because\u00a0my daddy is the guy who is flying the plane.”<\/p>\n

What confidence that little fellow had in his daddy! Of course he knew that his daddy, who he trusted with everything, would do everything possible to keep him safe and work for his good. What a lesson that was for me the first time I read it, but how fitting it is for my life today. When I am anxious, angry, scared, uncertain,\u00a0or thinking God is unaware,\u00a0I also have a daddy who is flying\u00a0my plane. God wants me, like that little boy,\u00a0to concentrate on the work He has given me while he takes care of EVERYTHING else.<\/p>\n

He knows when the news is bad. He knows when the situation\u00a0is unfair. He is certain about\u00a0the\u00a0uncertain. He is the one who allowed those evil plans\u00a0to temporarily succeed in order to accomplish\u00a0his own\u00a0plans for good.\u00a0He\u00a0WILL shine a light on all wrong motives when his time is right, (and he doesn’t need me screaming.) Nothing on the news shocks him, scares him, or makes him worry. He knows a lot more than the news reporters because he made the news. He controls the whole airport whether we admit it or not, and he doesn’t need\u00a0any help to get things done.<\/p>\n

Now you\u00a0know I \u00a0have to ask it………..Who’s your daddy?<\/p>\n

And,\u00a0who’s flying your<\/strong> plane?<\/p>\n

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