We recognize God has the Master and the Controller of the Universe, Creator of all things, but Christians today have a hard time recognizing God as the Master and Controller of our own daily lives.  How can such a big God be concerned about someone as insignificant as me?  Yet, the Bible paints a much different portrait of God’s relationship with us.  What it boils down to is trusting that God does love us, is concerned about us and we can let go of those urges to worry, be anxious, or demand control.  All these become barriers to receiving instruction from God.

President Ronald Reagan often told a story about a newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Times.  He had received instructions from his senior editor to get photographs of a brush fire in the foothills of northern California.  The instructions included hurrying to the Santa Monica Airport to board a small plane, taking some photos of the fire, and hurrying back by noon with the story.

The reporter dressed quickly, rushed to the airport, saw the small plane waiting on the runway, drove his car to the end of the runway, parked, and climbed on board.  Off they flew into the clear blue skies.  At about 5,000 feet, the reporter took out his camera and said to the man flying the plane, “Bank right and I’ll take some pictures of this fire.”  Then he heard the most frightening questions of his life, “Bank right?  Why don’t you bank right?  You’re the instructor, aren’t you?”

Sometimes doesn’t it seem that we hurry through life, not knowing where we are going, not really knowing what to do.  Than we hit those daily crisis and we realize that we don’t have a clue what we are doing.  We are given the controls of an airplane and have no idea how to fly – or go through life pretending that we do know how.  The reality is the peace, comfort and assurance we receive when we realize that God has been the pilot all along.  We are not even co-pilots!  We are told in Scripture to buckle up, take a seat in the back and be prepared for some turbulence.  Although life can be bumpy, we trust that our Lord will see us through.

So, when we are faced with difficult situations, perhaps it might be best to remember that God is in the control of this universe – even the controls of our life.