The Destruction Stage by Pastor Ed Young

 

When we put on our No Fear Gear and jump into the cockpit of our vessel, sit in the captain’s seat and white knuckle the throttle and say, “God, I am going to fly this plane.  I’ll determine my altitude.  Thank you very much.”  When we do that, when we exhibit that card-carrying, no-fear wearing, attitude-bearing, individualistic mentality, it is just a matter of time before we crash.  It is not if, it is when.  EJ is going to crash.  I am going to crash and you are going to crash if we do it away from God.  God is standing aside saying, “Let me fly, I am custom made to fly your craft.  I am here to sit in the captain’s seat of your life.  Won’t you let Me.?”

But we say, “No, no, no, no.  I know how to handle this marriage problem alone.  I know what to do in this dating relationship alone.  I know what to do financially alone.  I know how to invest this money alone.  I know how to move or buy that house alone.  I know what to do alone.  The only bowing I am going to do, God, is before a full length mirror.  Thank you.”  And the tragedy is, many of us when we crash, will crash in eternity.  We will meet God face to face one day and we will have to say to Him, “God, the theme song for my life was ‘I Did It My Way’”  Or we will at God and say, “God, the only bowing I did was in front of the full length mirror.  That was it for me.”  We are going to crash.  And the prodigal crashed into the destruction stage.

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