May 2021

Psalms 90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

For the past couple of weeks, I have been working in the shop doing maintenance items, rather than flying.  I had been getting used to being able to see firsthand the benefits of the work that we do here.  I was regularly meeting people and hearing about the ministry that they were on their way to do or that they were returning from.  It brought a lot of meaning to my work.  Working in the shop, a lot of it is working alone and very often on seemingly insignificant little parts.  

Last week, I was working on some wheel halves.  The wheel had corroded and so I had dismantled the wheel, stripped the paint and was sanding away the corrosion.  The thought occurred to me that it seemed like a very tedious and unimportant job, but that it too was important and that God could use it.  I pictured that wheel back on the airplane and delivering people armed with God’s powerful message of hope to isolated people.  Suddenly, my job got a lot more enjoyable.  Apart from the Lord being in the work, that’s just a piece of metal.  If the Lord is in it, that’s one piece of the puzzle that must come together to accomplish His beautiful work and no more or less important than any other.  My prayer is that the Lord will be in our work and that He will accomplish His will through our labor.

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.