A Pilot's Personality

   

  

        For those who don't know, I am a pilot in training. Through my flying lessons and meeting other pilots at our church, my Mom made up an expression, "have a pilot's personality". One pilot we met at church was a road racer and invented and patented the sliding window in the back of trucks. His wife(also a pilot) was the first woman sports reporter. To have a "pilot's personality" is to be a go getter and not to wait for the opportunity, but to make it happen(with Gods help.) Here's what I'm getting at, a "pilot's personality" isn't exclusive to pilots, it's just a life-style everyone can have, all it takes is a little work and your grass with be just as green. Another part of a "pilot's personality" is his/her goals. If you set inferior(stale and empty) goals your life will be an inferior one. On the other hand, if you set superior goals your life will be a superior life. This doesn't mean if you set a goal to be rich or fit that you will be happy with it. Superior is defined, "better than others: surpassing others in something such as intellect, achievement, or ability." So what exactly are superior goals?


Hebrews 12:1-2 says:

 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.


Paul is using a metaphor here, he is comparing the Christian faith to a race. What he is saying is that we can not have any extra encumbrance(weight.) In verse two, Paul wrote," Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith(race.)" In a any kind of race where you look is very important. If we are distracted we could lose rhythm, speed, and our endurance. In the Christian faith if we are distracted( by sin) it could hinder how we finish, thirty fold(little fruit), sixty fold, and a hundred fold(a lot of fruit). So how does this tie into setting goals?


If we set goals with our eyes on God and his will, our goals will be superior. Take Solomon for example, his goal was to be wise and to effectively lead as king.

 1 Kings 3:7-12

  “Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.  So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”
   The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.

In a naturalist's world view(where death is the end) every goal is inferior. This is because there is nothing after life to look to, so his goals are for his benefit and are determined by his world view. In a Christian's world view his goals are for the benefit of the kingdom and are determined by God's will. 

In the end only a Christian can have superior goals, because he can look forward to when Jesus says, " Well done good and faith slave". A naturalist has nothing to look forward to except when Jesus says, "Depart from me doer of sin, I never new you".