The Faith Engine Company

Good Tuesday morning! Another technical snow. As in technically it did snow last night. If you try to use this snow as an excuse, you might be in trouble. Do you feel like you are flying in a holding pattern over the Lord's Grace Airport, but the tower is ignoring your pleas to land? The Lord filled your plane with fuel some months ago and taught you the basics of taking off. You've been flying along discovering new lands of faith and mercy, but the fuel gauge is on the E and you really need to land this thing. You pray and pray, but at best you get a "hold on" or a "wait". With a little more pleading you get a "trust in Me", but no instructions on how to land and no expected time to arrive. On top of all that, ya gotta go, so to speak, and there doesn't seem to be a rest area to pull into up here in the clouds. Your little plane engine from the Faith Engine Company gives its first sputter. Oh, dear!

Then, just when you begin to look around for a parachute, a voice comes over the radio. The voice seems to come from everywhere and you didn't even realize the plane's radio had a 7.1 Surround Sound system. The voice states that it couldn't get through over the constant pleading of the pilot. It seems that you have had the transmit key locked down. As the flight becomes suddenly quiet, you listen for the next announcement of this voice. Looking out the window, you see that the 'cloud' you thought was well below is actually holding up the entire plane. You can bail out of the plane, but you would not fall anywhere. Just behind the parachute marked "In case of faith failure" you see cans of fuel labeled, "Word of God Faith Fuel". Why haven't you been using those?

That little airplane is your mission in this life. Jesus has given each of us a little plane that is pulled along by an engine of faith. Sometimes the engine sputters a little, it might even go out when we seem to need it most. We start looking around for a place to bail out, and stop fueling the engine with the Word of God. We can bail out onto the cloud that holds us up, but leaving our mission behind means that we also lose the benefits that mission would have brought to our lives. Like Esther, we are born and equipped by God for such a time as this. If we leave our mission plane, we might never get to see the far country of our dreams in this life. Someone else might hop in our mission plane and enjoy what we might have had. Jump back into the pilot's seat, leave that parachute alone. Begin fueling up with God's Word again, get that faith engine running flat out. Listen to the Navigator, our Lord Jesus, and fly toward the mission field to which God has called you.

Happy Flying!
Bucky