Jesus, the pilot

How many times have you flown in a plane believing that the pilot has it all in control? Well, often we do. On board, strap up ready to fly to any destination believing that the trained pilot has no mean intentions, and are capable of flying safe. There are various news about aircraft missing such as the Malaysian airline Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239 persons which disappeared; a situation that has stunned aviation experts and indeed everyone and also a Mozambican pilot deliberately ditched a plane, apparently on a suicide mission, killing all on board.  

I wonder if we can believe and trust pilots who themselves are flesh and blood prone to errors and given to human idiosyncrasies and flaws, and in extreme and scary circumstances, nursing malicious and mischievous agendas to end it all, why then do we fight to believe and from time to time query the unblemished, perfect, and genuinely sincere pilot of our souls, Jesus whose only plan for us is to give us an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11.

There is a hymn titled 'What a friend we have in Jesus', it is so powerful that each time I come across it I just have it in me that I have a friend who is my Lord and my Saviour.

What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit,
Oh, what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer!

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged—
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful,
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Sre we weak and heavy-laden,
Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge—
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In His arms He’ll take and shield thee,
Thou wilt find a solace there.

Just a little talk with Jesus to be our pilot is all we need in life to succeed,  to land safely at that promised land that He has promised us. Acts 3:19, John 3:7.