Blessings!!!

For those of you who know me, I love pilot analogies. Here is one I recently thought of.

You are trying to fly from destination A to destination B. There is known weather activity in front of you causing you to make certain decisions.

In the ideal sky without other traffic, you may request to deviate from your course to navigate around the weather activity, climb to higher altitude to avoid the weather, or in worst cases, turn back to the airport of origin or fly through the weather if you’re stuck.

The constraints are the situations given to you in this world that you can’t choose. These can be things such as family background, race, gender, etc. Sure, there can be some leeway in improving the situation by deviating flight paths by a few miles or climbing to another altitude but further deviation might put your plane in collision course with another aircraft.

If deviating flight path or climbing to avoid weather does not work, then turning back may be an option. But before you do so, consider the losses that you have to take in with not getting your passengers to where they want to go. Safety is a number 1 priority but you’ll still have to fly the same route if you want to take passengers to where they want to go, but maybe another time. Maybe that’s not bad either as we make decisions in life and God’s will is done in God’s time. Also, what if weather activity has built up behind your aircraft, you may be left with no choice but to proceed.

As a pilot, how do you make judgement calls? You gather information from weather reports before you take off, pilot reports (PIREPS) and your weather radar and use wisdom and experience to navigate through. As a person, you gather information through your senses that God has blessed you with, through constant prayer for wisdom and discernment, and make decisions through the wisdom God has gifted us with (James 1)

Now then, what if you have to fly through some adverse weather conditions? The saying as a pilot is “trust your instruments”. As a person, trust God! Know that He has everything under control. Sometimes there’s places you need to go to where there’s known to be weather activity, but you have to go through it because that’s the only way and there’s no turning back. Trust God!!!

What do you know, maybe the weather activity might have already disappeared by the time your plane passes through the area. And hey, you’ll gain experience (as a pilot and knowing God) more and the destination can be VERY rewarding.

Thoughts mainly based off Psalm 23.

God Bless!!!