God is My Co-Pilot

I have been pondering for a while about why it is that sometimes we seem to run on autopilot. Everything seems to be routine and we just function automatically. I think there is a great deal of that process in the church, I also believe a lot of long term Christians are just plain bored with their lives and their faith.  Pretty much like 'Groundhog Day".

As I was trying to work out how I would explain this, I was working beside my bookcase and my eyes rested on a book title " God is my Co - Pilot". It is war story and to be honest, I have never read it, but  the title started me thinking about how we have God in our lives. A lot of the time God can be like our Co-Pilot; we are in charge but God's around to do the small stuff  ( "God can you find me a parking space?") and in case anything goes wrong. Maybe its just me, but a lot of people seem to be like that, they carry on with life without God's help until something goes wrong!! Then we are scrambling around trying to get God's help in whatever we can't handle.

I was wondering why that may be the case and the conclusion I came to was that it was a basic lack of trust on our part. Do we really trust our Heavenly Father? Is this a transfer from when we have been let done by those who were supposed to care for us one way or another? So to protect ourselves we attempt to stay in charge of our own lives, because I am the only one I can really rely on. The root of this process is fear. Fear of being let down, abandoned or abused in some way. Danny Silk describes it as an "Orphan Spirit", which keeps us seperated from God and other authority figures; "running our own show".

Fear in this way is not of God, but it keeps us bound. The answer is love and God the Father is Love.

The scriptures say that perfect love casts out all fear. We need to return to the Father and begin to take some risks in the area of trust.

Arohanui (Love) Paul