In 1989 Geoffrey Gorsuch while flying his small plane in the midst of a horrible storm reports that he could:
barely see 20 feet in front of the plane. On the ground,
signals were being transmitted to the five radios and
three navigational aids on board the aircraft. . . .
These instruments guided us through the storm to the
runway. There were moments when the confusion in the
clouds could have been fatal, times when all our senses
seemed to indicate that the instruments were lying,
making panic and pilot error inevitable. But I had been
trained to trust the instruments. And I did. . . . As
we broke out of the clouds 100 feet off the runway and in
a perfect altitude for landing, all that remained to do
was to ease back the power and the stick and let her
settle onto the runway. As the emergency vehicles
approached with their blaring sirens and flashing lights,
I knew they would not be necessary. I had trusted the
instruments, I was a pilot -- and that was the day I knew
it for sure.
And so it is with God. He has endowed us with spiritual instruments to get us through the storm clouds of the human condition. But do we know how to interpret them? And, having received the message, will we trust it with our very lives? That is the essence of faith.
Geoff Gorsuch
The Christian Reader
Spring 1990
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