A skeptic riding on a large airplane quipped that faith was for those without a sense of reality. He had no room for faith in his life, none at all.
His seatmate replied, “You wouldn’t be riding in a metal tube thirty-thousand feet in the air if you didn’t have a least a little faith.”
Here’s the takeaway from that story. These men didn’t have to be aerospace engineers to step into a craft that would fly through the sky without any visible means of support. They only had to have trust (faith) in the men who were.
Proverbs 3:5-6 says:
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
This verse starts with the word trust, a synonym for faith (a religious term). However, let’s skip to the middle to begin.
“Do not lean on your own understanding.”
How many people say, “Oh, I’m not flipping that light switch until I understand everything electrical, including the power generating plant and how that electricity flows through the wires in my house.’
No, we flip the switch because we trust it to work. We accept that we don’t need to understand, just trust that it will.
Or, and this is a good one, starting up your car. There are people who go a lifetime and never open the hood on their car. They know there are people who understand all that, and as long as it works, that’s good enough to get them down the road.
See how this is going? Place your trust in the engineer, the mechanic, the one who knows what he’s doing, not in whether we have a complete understanding of the details.
When we acknowledge that God is the truthmaker, the creator, the one who guides us and delivers us, we don’t need to know how he does it. It’s enough to understand that he does.
From that point on, our path will lead straight to him.
So, have a little faith. Your boarding pass is ready. It’s called Salvation, and it will carry you home.
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