What Voice Are You Listening To?

 Friday, March 7, 2014

"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 mis-spoken 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 instructions to the pilot. But, I noticed there were two aircraft taking her instructions.   The direction finder soon proved that she was also 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 instructions that would lead him to safety, but without immediate corrective action, the T33 would have soon run out of fuel and fallen 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.  In His teaching on what is to come in the last days, Jesus said: Be not deceived". (Matthew. 24:3).  If He were standing beside you this morning, He would still say, “Be in My word and be not deceived. Listen to His voice.

Blessings.

Gramps

PS So very important today when we hears voices on the Media, so much other communication. phones full of blogs, etc.    – It is important to check it all with Gods Word and direction.