Going Too Fast
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★A number of years ago, a Navy jet fighter plane shot itself down over the deserts of
Nevada while testing a new cannon mounted on its wing. The plane was flying at
supersonic speeds, but the cannon shells were subsonic. What happened was crucial. The
fighter actually ran into the shells it had fired seconds before. The jet was traveling too
fast.
Sometimes we travel too fast for our own spiritual good. God speaks and we are going
too fast to hear Him. Don’t be guilty of traveling so fast with your life that you run past
the sound of the Word of God. Be in the center of His will.
The point
A jet fighter traveling at supersonic speed caught up to and destroyed itself with its own subsonic shells; a metaphor for living too fast to hear God's voice or will.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Cautionary · Convicting · Urgent
To tell aloud
under a minute · 111 words