Jesus Is Better
“How does this massive chunk of metal fly through the sky?” I pondered to myself while flying twenty-thousand feet over the ocean. I was getting a little nervous while sitting in an aisle seat aboard a flight from New York to North Carolina. Air travel flabbergasts me. Modern passenger airplanes can weigh as much as 1,265,000 pounds. It just doesn’t make sense that they stay suspended in the middle of the sky. They glide like an eagle while weighing as much as six hundred elephants.
I don’t get them, but I must trust them. I have faith that this plane will carry me home for the holidays. No part of my brain understands the aerodynamics or engineering, though. I can’t comprehend the miracle of modern flight, as it’s literally rocket science. I can’t calculate the thrust, or drag that lifts the massive structure into the atmosphere. I don’t understand it, but I rely on it. I trust the pilot, air traffic controllers, scientists, and engineers even though I’ve never met them.
We will never fully understand God. If we could, He wouldn’t really be God. An intrinsic mystery lies in the nature of the Creator of the cosmos. However, we trust him. The author of Hebrews explains, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (11:1).
We are called to trust God, even when we cannot understand Him. Questions are inevitable. Doubts are unavoidable. Uncertainty is part of life. Don’t allow doubts to discourage you. Rather, let them lead you to explore deeper experiences with God. We cannot see Him, but we can feel Him. We cannot sit down next to Him, but we can talk with Him. We cannot see what tomorrow holds, but we can trust Him today.
I’ve flown hundreds of times. I was nervous at first, but now it’s as natural as riding in a car.
Keep trusting God. Your confidence will grow. Trust + time = confidence