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I Need Oxygen

by Jerry Ousley  
6/14/2007 / Christian Living

During the last few months of my three-year army career I did a lot of flying. Deb had been called back to work, and since I was only a few months away from being discharged and had no job or source of income to return to, she and Jeremy (then three years old) came back home to Indiana while I stayed in Washington DC. By combining leave time and holidays I managed to get at least one three-day weekend per month. I would fly home, spend a few very enjoyable days with Deb and Jeremy then fly back. The return trip to Washington DC almost always found it raining but then that matched my mood since I didn't really want to leave.

One return trip in particular proved to be exceptionally stormy. It included an approximate fifteen-minute stop in the Greenville, South Carolina area. We descended dropping into a fog so thick you could barely see the tip of the wing through the cabin window. It was eerie watching the smoke-like fog rolling over the wing. I liked looking from the window way up in the air like that. It always reminded me of the Twilight Zone episode where the guy saw the creature out on the wing of the plane and to be frank that fog was so thick I half-way expected to see one on that night. As I watched the landing lights came into view but it seemed we were going awfully fast and coming down way to soon, then with a sudden "thump" the jet hit the runway so hard all the oxygen masks dropped from their hidden-from-view compartments. It all happened so fast there was no time to panic and I think everyone on that jet thought, "what just happened?" Nothing was ever really explained but I figured that the fog made the ground appear too quickly to the pilots and they had to make adjustments to their landing procedure. It could have been a nasty situation but thank God they must did the right things because we came to a stop safely, the passengers getting of left the cabin and those coming on board found their way to their seats and we went on to Washington DC without further incident.

It caused me think how quickly things can happen. When the oxygen masks fell it was completely accidental but it proved they were there and working if we had needed them. Living life for God can be like that. How many times do things happen so quickly that we don't have time to think? God never promised us that when we came to Him everything would go smooth and perfect all the time. In fact in many cases there seems to be difficulties at every corner we turn in life. But He did promise that He'd never ever leave us nor forsake us.

In every situation and circumstance in which we find ourselves God is always there to let down the spiritual "oxygen masks" just when we need them. He won't make everything go completely smooth but He will be there even when it may seem like He's a million miles away. He's right there saying, "Just look to me and quit looking away to other things." His oxygen mask dangling in front of us is an assurance that when things don't go right and the situation appears to be hopeless that He is still in control and is still providing just what we need when we need it.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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