Autopilot
Let Go, Let God.
Hello Readers! After a brief hiatus, it’s nice to be back! The title of this Journey Entry is, “AutoPilot.”
In my freetime, one of my favorite things to do is to travel. There’s nothing I love more than to be immersed in environments that are new to me. So after months of grinding, I was able to enjoy Spring Break on the lively island of Puerto Rico! To keep it very short – a time was HAD. However, myself and many of my peers similarly experienced flight issues, delays and many other hindrances upon our return. For me specifically, I experienced an 11 hour flight delay that required me to push back tasks that awaited my return to school.
My final flight experienced a plethora of issues, from a complete shutdown/blackout just minutes before we would’ve gone in the air, fuel shortages, weight/plane measurement issues and more! It was almost as if, anything that could go wrong, DID in fact go wrong.
I could’ve been angry or even impatient (with good reason to be) but God placed an extreme sense of peace and contentment inside of me that I was not always used to in scenarios such as this. As an OCD, competitive perfectionist like me, it can be quite difficult for me to settle down when things go off schedule but since late 2023, God has developed my faith in more ways than I had realized.
I believe faith and character is best shown when life goes against the grain of our desires. Since I had been operating so long under the will of God with minor obstacles, it took situations like this, this year to allow God to show me how far my faith has come. I knew that even though there were things of value ahead of me, that it would mean nothing if I did not reach my destination safely.
God has a way of reminding us that He, and only Him, is truly in control.
It’s easy to praise God when life goes exactly according to your plan, but it’s important to check our faith temperature when life steers off course.
On that night, at 1am when our flight was delayed again until the morning, I remember seeing and hearing the visible frustration of everyone around me. The atmosphere was extremely negative and spiteful to the point where I knew in my spirit that I had to remove myself for the time being. To be more specific – at the time, I didn’t know it was the Holy Spirit who removed me from that area or even my flight after the blackout but over time I realized that God was protecting me in ways greater than what my eyes could see. What was truly occurring in that moment is what I now refer to as “autopilot.”
“Autopilot” are moments when I believe the Holy Spirit takes control in granting us discernment and direction into a specific place or out of an area that God does not want us in. As faith is developed, I believe it becomes much easier to recognize the urges of the Holy Spirit and respond effectively as well.
What my encouragement to you this month is to live your life on God’s Autopilot. Allow Him to direct you, pivot you or even turn you away from something that you don’t completely see. The Word says in Psalms 91 “The Lord says ‘I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.’”
Allow that word to encourage you and to motivate you to experience life with God’s AutoPilot!
