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By Anna Meadows
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My mind is on overload, and I shift uncomfortable in the stiff cushioned chair feeling as if the weight of the world were resting on my shoulders.
I look over at a man tapping hastily on a small black laptop. His business jacket lies neatly on the empty seat beside him, with a cell phone and palm pilot set out, no doubt keeping him up to date, informed, on top.
I’m struck then, how the world has become one big, fast moving treadmill, with runners who are always striving for more, fighting for success and listening to the world’s messages to “be somebody.” Yet what is their destination?
I take another sip of the water. It tastes like chilled metal and I force myself to swallow it. I pull out a magazine stuffed in the seat in front of me. I flip through the pages and my mind wanders to worrying thoughts familiar to my uncertain heart.
I’m afraid of the unknown.
Success by the world’s standards seems so unreachable.
How do I know what is ahead?
What if I can’t reach the goals I’ve set for myself?
What if I lose control?
Sighing, I slip the magazine back in the pouch, wishing I had a magnifying glass for my life. I look out the tiny window at the wide open space below me. I can see for hundreds of miles. The roads are like lines in a giant maze, but I can see the beginning of them and the end.
I see over mountains and hills that line the small clump of a city. I can even see above a few clouds that are scattered around. Everything is much simpler from my viewpoint.
A bird’s eye view.
God’s eye view.
I sit up straighter at the thought whispered into my mind. This is how God sees things, above the bustle of this world, over the mountains of my life? He sees my road—a crazy mix of mazes—from beginning to end. He sees over the clouds that block my view of the future and over the hills I’ll have to climb. If He sees all that, can’t I trust Him with my life? Can’t I loosen the death-grip I have on my future? Let go of the fear?
Too often I limit the Almighty because my faith is too insignificant to see what He can really do. He desperately wants me to believe in His supernatural power. To have faith that takes Him out of the box I try to stuff Him in and let Him work miracles in my life.
He’s sitting with a bird’s eye view of my life just waiting for me to surrender to Him, so He can guide me through the maze.
The seat belt light dings, startling me from my reverie. The captain’s muffled voice comes over the speaker saying something about our destination.
I look back to the business man and over the seats holding passengers and realize our destination is not success. It’s reaching the One with the God’s eye view. The journey is not in striving but in seeking first His kingdom and letting Him take care of the rest. I must let go of the burdens I carry and leave the worry of this temporary life behind, knowing He sees what’s ahead and trusting Him with it.
If I had a magnifying glass for my life, there’d be no need for God. He designed our lives so that we’d have to trust in Him. There should be no fear of losing control, because in fact, I’ve already lost the control when I surrendered my life to Him. What a heavy burden He willingly lifts off my shoulders!
He is in control.
Knowing that gives me peace.
The all-knowing, all-seeing God is in control of my life.
Why would I ever want to take it back?
As the passengers slowly file off the plane, thinking they’ve reached their destination, I smile with the knowledge God has given me. The destination is yet to come.
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