BBD 11.11.15 A Safe Landing (Classic)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 2009
11.11.15
A Safe
Landing
For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked
shall fall by calamity. - Proverbs 24:16.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding
in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. -
1 Corinthians 15:58.
“His head was down, his feet were up, and he came whizzing by screaming.” Chris Hoyle had looked out her window just in time to
see Ken Larsen on the way down from the top of a five-story building. Larsen
survived the fall with no broken bones, and was only bruised and scraped.
Ken Larsen’s frightening fall seems to be a picture of
many lives, which for a variety of reasons may go out of control. Many of the
prayer requests we receive are from people whose lives appear to be rapidly
heading for a crash landing. Some have financial problems, health problems,
marital problems, job problems, sin problems or a combination of problems. So
what do you do when you find your life coming apart, and you are falling?
Ken Larsen was on top of the building laying
telecommunications cable. He was walking backward pulling on the cable and his
co-worker was holding the spool feeding it out. When Ken stepped off the roof
he still had the cable in his hands. He held on, gripping tighter and tighter,
which broke his fall. He landed on his feet, even though much of the fall was
head first. Meanwhile, back on the roof his co-worker leaned against the spool
of cable trying to slow the rate the cable fed out.
The only thing that will slow our fall is to hang onto
God. In 1 Corinthians 15:58 we are told, “Therefore, my
beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the
Lord....” To have a safe landing, we must be
steadfast, immovable in our confidence in God. It also helps as it did for Ken
Larsen, and for others, to be trying to slow our rate of fall as well. It does
make a difference when we do as the apostle exhorted us “that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made
for all men... (1 Timothy 2:1).”
If we want to have a safe landing we must be steadfast in
our faith. No matter how bad it may seem that life has become, or has the
potential to become; always believe that God is the One, who can help you, who
can change things. Persist in praying, and asking others to pray for you,
because it will make a difference. No matter what terrible or horrific things
may happen to you or to your family, always trust God; always believe that He
loves you, and cares about you, because He does. He is the only One who has the
power to bring good out of the bad, no matter how bad it may be (Romans 8:28). As the apostle Peter says in 1 Peter 5:7, put all of your anxiety, all of your cares
upon God because He cares about you.
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