Flying High

About time I returned to regale you with trivia!!!! Writing two devotionals a month has been a challenge and I think I am finally getting into some what of a groove and can get back to posting the past ancient years of one Lynda Elmore Reimer!!! But first, let's catch up on my devotionals. Beginning this month, the Northside Baptist Devotional can be found for free on Amazon.com and downloaded to a Kindle or iPad. Flying High II Timothy 1:7 Admitting we have weaknesses and fears is difficult for most of us to verbalize to a friend or relative, let alone the world at large! Can we even admit it to the Lord?? There is a fear that I have confessed continually to the Lord...desperately, frequently and whining and begging too! Since I can remember, I have had a fear of heights. This fear also affects me when flying. Unless you have personally experienced this paralyzing terror, it is impossible to understand. Kind of like asking a man if he understands childbirth! Until the last two years, all the flights I embarked on were always with my husband and/or children...my moral support. Now I have made innumerable flights all by myself! Why? Because I enjoy a 4-5 hour flight battling the fear that persistently besets me?? Absolutely not!! The why is because I know that God has directed me to overcome this persistent fear in order to follow His directives. Yes, these trips have been to lend a hand to our children for whatever reasons, but in the scheme of things, how much more are they for my benefit as I claim His promises. I have learned to trust Him and take it one step at a time...moment by moment to rest in His power. There is no need to sit rigid and uptight worrying about the next hour, the next flight. And so He has proven Himself faithful in all my pleadings. How much more my faith and trust has grown through this. He knows my fears and weaknesses and is trying to complete His work in me. The Lord does not fly stand-by!! He is with me on these flights!