Believe the Instruments

ONE DAY while flying his plane, a pilot noticed a small cloud up ahead. He decided to just fly through it. Once he got in the midst of the cloud, he realized that it wasn’t as small as he had thought. He decided to pull up and out of it but after pulling up for a long period of time, he decided to try to point the nose of the plane down to get out of this cloud.

Still not able to come out of the cloud, the pilot began to get a little disoriented. With all of his maneuvering, he began to wonder if he was right side up or upside down. Sweat began pouring down his face, because he didn’t know his position in the cloud. He started to feel upside down.

He checked his instruments and they said the plane was still right side up. He felt like the plane had tipped over but the instruments said the opposite.

The pilot made a decision to believe the instruments even though his emotions were leading him differently. It took all of his energy to believe that those instruments were telling him the truth. Finally, he came out of the cloud, not far from the ground, because the cloud was low.

When he came out, he was right side up. Had he believed what he felt, he would have been a dead man; but he acted on what the instruments said, even though he felt differently.

While many times our emotions and feelings will lead us into defeat, the Word of God is an instrument that gives solid guidance and direction we can count on.