Thursday
February 20
“The
entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.”
Ps
119:130 NKJV
INSTRUMENT
RATED (2)
In order for you to
be instrument rated, an instructor will accompany you on your training
missions. The instructor will place a long-billed cap on your head, so that all
you can see is the instrument panel in front of you. That’s because this is all
you’ll be able to see when you’re flying in storm conditions. You must learn to
work your instruments and radio, doing many turns and being able to bring the
plane down within a few feet of the landing strip. And you must do all this
without ever looking to see where you are, without the confirmation of your
senses. This simulated blindness, causing confusion to the average person, is
soon overcome by disciplined training. The flights “under the hood,” as the
procedure’s called, become merely routine flights. What happens when unprepared
Christians are plunged into darkness by the trials of life? They begin to
question what’s happening. Everything was going well; all they could see ahead
was fair weather. But now they’ve lost their sense of direction because they
have not spent time in God’s Word. They have not been taught to trust God
regardless of what they see or feel, so they get discouraged, sometimes
backslide, and sometimes even blame God and get swallowed up in bitterness.
Paul writes to Timothy, “Study and be eager and do your utmost to present
yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be
ashamed, correctly analyzing and
accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of
Truth” (2Ti 2:15 AMP).
This word is taken from Daily Devotional: The Word for you Today.
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