Mar 17, 2010 04:24PM

Deferred, Broken, or Shattered

Morning Musings

Deferred, Broken, or Shattered

Renda Brumbeloe

A myriad of reasons can cause an airplane to be late and off schedule.  It may be that an instrument has failed or a part in a flight system needs to be deferred.

So the next time you fly, think of this:   It takes thousands of parts and components on an airliner working together in concert with flight systems to make flying from point A to point B possible, safe and timely.   Most flights depart with several deferred items that will be repaired and made new at a later time or on the next scheduled maintenance.  You should be comforted knowing that you can take off and arrive on schedule with deferred flight items.

And consider this:  Airplanes are scheduled for flight in different parts of the world, months and even years in advance.  In addition, they have maintenance and retirement schedules prepared several years in advance.  I have piloted several airplanes on their final revenue flight before being retired to the aircraft bone-yard.  Most of them had several deferred, broken or shattered parts.

The same is true for the human condition.  We have a schedule.  We have imperfect lives.  Our lives may be broken and shattered.  But God can make us new.  He binds the wounds and heals our brokenness.  He defers our faults and schedules our lives in mercy and love.  And He promises to make all things new. 

?He who was seated on His heavenly throne said, ?I am making everything new!?  Then he said, ?Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.?? Revelation 21:5  (NIV).

"Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.  But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed"  Isaiah 53:4-5 (NJKV).

Christians have a unique and sure hope. Someday we will make that final flight on schedule.  And on that glorious day, we will be made whole and complete in Christ.