Five minutes is all it took to miss my plane. Unbeknownst to me you have to check your bags into the Vegas airport 45 minutes before your flight takes off. I got there at 9:20pm and was told that I couldn’t board the plane (even without my bags, which I suggested as an alternative). Bad news followed when I learned that I had to wait 3 ½ hours to catch a flight to Houston. More bad news followed when I found out that I would arrive in Houston at 5:30am and my flight to Norfolk wouldn’t leave until 12:35pm. I take back everything I said about flying in my last post!!!!!
I spent a lot of time in Continental Airline’s Presidents Club. I didn’t even know that such a thing existed. It’s for the frequent fliers, upper class, and those who pay $45 like I did. Did you know that you can shower at the airport? They give you complimentary food and internet access, and you can make photocopies, watch movies, and sit in nice leather chairs. I opted for the floor where I spent the majority of my time sound asleep, using my bag as a pillow and my jacket as a blanket. I’m sure everyone wondered why they let me in; I mean who goes to a swanky club and sleeps on the floor?!
I mentioned before that I read the book, No Other Gods, by Kelly Minter. I enjoyed it so much that I bought the workbook. I have an assignment for you. Read the following excerpt and spend five minutes thinking about how this applies to your life.
“I think, ultimately, our dependence on our functional gods is primarily a matter of trust; we don’t trust God, while we do trust our idols to bring us what we want and need. I’m in the middle of a potentially life-changing trust issue now. I’ve unexpectedly hit a fork in my otherwise smooth road, and am faced with an opportunity that could move me hundreds of miles away from my home - the home that I love, the home that’s surrounded by deep friendships, the home in which I’ve finally begun to settle…
Through the cacophony of a little panic and a lot of angst, I keep hearing the word trust. Not the word surrender because, to the best of my ability I have surrendered. I will go where the Lord wants me to go. But I’m finding that trust can be entirely different, though the two often overlap. One of my friends recently said surrender is about the will; trust is about the heart. I am having a hard time trusting God as I explore something that would mean giving up so much of what I deeply love and depend on…
I believe God wants my trust, since trust speaks deeply of relationship. It is a rare moment we trust someone on a heart level with whom we’re not in relationship. So that’s where I am - working through yet another layer in my relationship with God, prayerful that I will come out on the other side as one who trusts Him more deeply.
Do you obey God while not relating to Him? Have you surrendered to Him while not trusting Him? Do you feel especially intimate with Him?”
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