On Final Approach

This is a very familiar term to airplane pilots. In any flight there is the takeoff, the trip or journey and with the airport in sight the final approach and finally the landing. For pilots, some flights can be a piece of cake with no mechanical or weather problems. On the other hand some flights can be troublesome, maybe with mechanical or weather problems or just long tiring trips. Many pilots give a sigh of relief after a long trip and say or think, “On the ground at last”. Those flights remind me of something in the Bible. Our journey or flight begins at conception and birth. Then there is the flight or our life on earth. For some life may be easy and there are very few problems. For others it may be difficult with lots of problems. Some lives may be short while others may have many years. We never know when we may be on final approach in this life. It is when we are about to leave this world and step into another, (Hebrews 9:27). For a Christian or those who have accepted Christ it is leaving this world and stepping or arriving into the presence of God, (John 1:12, Luke 16:23, 23:43, Revelation 2:7). For those who have ignored or rejected God they step into another world of great suffering but not into the presence of God, (Luke 16:19-31, Revelation 20:11-15). See you in Church next Sunday. Brother J