The sky box

 The skybox…

Last night I was honored to go to the 80 th birthday celebration of Mission Aviation Fellowship….

https://maf.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Aviation_Fellowship

Our family has been involved with them for several years, known three different leaders over time, each with different visions of growth and service…all of whom served with humbleness, integrity and Christian values befitting the original plan to people in the remotest places-the ends of the earth…

Wandering around the sky box looking at the amazing views was a reminder of the organization…you are up on the fifth floor with wall to windows seeing the world at sunset, nightlights below and around the foothills and other buildings…you can see far into the night with twinkling lights, traffic below and buildings with their lights going on and off…

You see the things close at hand like the staff of MAF…mechanics to teachers to secretaries to various ones who keep the organization working….all while serving God…a support team…

Then a little ways away, lights working , someone moving through the streets or an occasional aircraft coming into the nearby airport…like the pilots and their families fanning out to the remote areas of the globe…lights in their areas of life, where God called them to serve…

 Further away, not so clear in the dark, a vision for the future…they don’t know all that is ahead…but God has a plan and he will reveal it in his time…and then it will be clear…and what God has planned, he will provide for…and they can celebrate renewed enthusiasm, renewed service, renewed commitment, renewed vision, renewed tools, planes…

Thank YOU…

 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Jer.29.11-13

 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matt.28.18-20

 And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

Jer.33.9

Jehovah Jireh…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCsH_TtZReY&list=RDfCsH_TtZReY&start_radio=1