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You in Me
Being a Pilot for MAF in Mozambique
The weekends and evenings were a time for me to be a husband to my wife and a father to my children.
I would do the shopping, work on the car, do maintenance around the house.
On Sunday evening I would lead our English church fellowship
But on Monday morning, things were different.
My alarm would go off, many times soon after 4:00 a.m.
I would find a shirt like the one I’m wearing (Heidi always had them washed and ironed for me)
I would find a pair of nice black jeans
I would put my pilot bars on the epulats
I would find my two pens and put them in my pocket.
I would put my identification papers in my other shirt pocket
I would put on a pair of rugged footwear.
On the way out the door, after I had my breakfast, I would grab my bag with my lunch, my iPad, my portable GPS, my knee board.
I would get in the car or on my motorcycle and head toward the hangar and arrive an hour before my flight.
My first order of business was to gather all the weather information that I could to see if there was a possiblity of being delayed.
After that, I would do the paperwork that was required--
a flight plan form
a tax form
Print out a log to keep a physical record of the flight
Then I would head out into the hangar and do the pre-flight inspection of the airplane
Check quantity of fuel
Color of fuel
Quality of fuel—any water in it?
Check oil
Do a complete walk around, check airplane systems, condition
Then passengers would arrive.
Had to weigh the passengers
Weigh their bags.
Could I carry everything and everybody?
If all was good, it was time to fly
Passengers on board
Give them a briefing on seatbelts, door operation, doggy bags
Do a checklist before getting into the airplane
baggage doors closed?
fuel caps closed?
Wheel chocks pulled out?
Passengers briefed?
Get in and get settled.
Seat belt on
Seat adjusted and locked into place
Pre-start checklist
Post-start checklist
Call the tower and get clearance to taxi
At the end of the runway, stop and do a pre-takeoff checklist
Including emergency briefing
If all is good, we call for clearance for takeoff
After takeoff, perform a climb checklist
At level off, perform a level off checklist
During the flight, always evaluating aircraft systems, changing weather, passenger comfort, emergency landing options.
At descent, perform a descent checklist
Before landing, a landing checklist.
After landing, a landing checklist
After shutdown, a post-shutdown checklist.
To be a good pilot, you had to be very calculating, very technical.
Able to leave all that had happened during the week and the emotions that came with it behind you.
In order to be a good pilot, I had to actively and consciously step into the role.
I had to put on the hat of a pilot
If I was arriving at the hangar to do maintenance or an inspection, again, I had to conscientiously put on the hat of an inspector or maintenance technician
I had to step into the role of a maintenance technician.
I had to put on my mechanic’s hat, as we often said.
But putting on these clothes spoke other things as well
Identity: When someone looked at me, they could tell what kind of job I had.
When I changed from my work clothes of the weekend into my flight uniform, I had a change of identity
Position: wearing these clothes brought a certain position of authority.
When I was in the airport environment and wearing my security badge, I had a position.
I could enter secure areas.
I was pilot in command of my airplane.
I was allowed to tell people what they could and couldn’t do around my airplane
Stepping into this uniform and into the airport environment, brought with it a change of identity and position.
It took a conscious change of mind, a change of attention
I want to draw your attention again to
(NIV)
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth.
The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him.
But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live.
20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.
The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
Pray
Here Jesus introduces His followers to something which had to be completely new and astounding to them.
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You in me, I in you
The past two Sunday’s that I preached, we took a closer look at “I in you”—Jesus living in us through the power of the HS and what does that mean.
We sort of get this because this is how being a Believer is introduced to us.
“Ask Jesus to come and live inside your heart”, and “Jesus is knocking on your heart’s door”
The idea of the HS coming to live inside of us is familiar and seems right.
But I wonder how much we have thought about this other idea: us being in Him?
I certainly don’t recall thinking much about it for most of my life.
I would read this idea but it didn’t click with me.
It didn’t compute.
I would tend to just sort of brush over it and go on because I just couldn’t grasp it.
But I think that we have to think about it and grasp it.
Because if we don’t, we are missing such a key part of living as a Believer.
“in Him”— a phrase found 118 times in the NT
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