What Voice Are You Listening To?

"Truly, truly, I say to you he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life"  (John 5:24)

Hey Gang:  Did you ever literally have another person’s life in your hands?  Where a misspoken word could lead to their demise?  I have.  As an air traffic controller, on any given shift of work, I held more than a hundred aircraft filled with people in my hands; one missed communication could have placed one, or more, of these aircraft in a life threatening position.. 

One night, while working at the Selfridge AFB Rapcon, I was idling away the remaining hour of my shift by tinkering with the long rang radar scope that allowed the Ground Controller at another facility to line the aircraft up with our radar and thus land the aircraft safely.  As I tinkered I listened to the ground controller give her instructions to the pilot but, I noticed there were two aircraft taking her instructions.   The direction finder soon proved that she was giving instructions to the wrong airplane.      

   

A call soon corrected the problem and the aircraft was safely vectored to his home base.  The pilot thought he was following the instruction that would lead him to safety but without immediate corrective action, the T33 would soon run out of fuel and fall far short of his Rehoboth (home base).  .  Do you see the analogy painted here.  We may think we are following the right path when in reality we are slipping further away from the Lord. 

Moses gave us the formula to remain strong in the Lord and not be subject to following the wrong voice when he wrote, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.   These words which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in our house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up” (Deut.  6:5-7). 

Soooo, my young friends, unless you feed your heart, soul and mind with the things of God and stay in constant communication with Him, you may choose to follow the wrong voice.  Jesus began His teaching on what is to come in the last days to be careful and not be deceived". (Matt. 24:3).  If He were standing beside you this morning, He would still say, “Be in My word and be not deceived.”

Blessings,

Gramps