Emotions and feelings can betray you.

 

No one knows this more than a pilot.

 

To keep perspective, pilots use an instrument panel named after an important instrument, the gyroscope.

 

“Trust your gyros” is the common phrase from pilot to pilot.  That is because, in the world of pilots, trusting your instincts can actually “work against you”.

 

And so it is with each of us.

 

Our feelings can betray us….and how we feel can lead us down the wrong path.

 

And there is one thing worse than the physical death a pilot could face.

 

Spiritual Death.

 

God warns us about this:

 

Jeremiah 17  9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

 

Throughout life, I have often used the phrase:  “Follow your heart”…..so to read that verse was a shock to me.  We can actually lead ourselves in the wrong direction. Pray about your decisions.  Weigh your next move. “Trust your gyros”.

 

The Word of God is our Gyroscope.  It is our bearing and gives us alignment with the horizon.  It keeps us from falling and going into engine failure. It points us in the way that we should go.

 

Luke 16  10 “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?

13“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”

 

God has entrusted us with much.

 

He has given us resources, and abilities, and has put us here on earth for a season.

 

He is calling us to a life of purpose.

 

Where is He calling you?

 

I want to again say:  Start small.

 

Ask Him what He is calling for you to do?

 

Are you lacking an audience?  He changed a city with one encounter.

 

Are you lacking resources?  He was a homeless wanderer.

 

Are you not respected by others?  He was the illegitimate son of a carpenter.

 

Are you afraid?  He faced off with a Roman government, called out powerful Jewish religious leaders, and dealt with a disciple who was a political revolutionary—probably a brutal soldier.

 

You are not called to have things to do things….you are called to have the faith of a mustard seed.

 

Allow the Lord to lead your steps.

 

Start with a small step, a tiny faith, and a BIG God.

 

He is able.

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J

 

FCA January 25, 2019

 

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