Clifford Anderson, a student pilot, had an experience during a routine training flight that he is not anxious to repeat. It was nine o’clock at night when his engine suddenly began to sputter—and died.
“It so happened,” he said afterward, “that I was too far away from the landing field to glide in with no power and was too low to use my parachute. If it had been daylight, a forced landing would have been that much simpler, but visibility was very poor. It really felt like being on the inside of an ink bottle looking out.
“Gliding down at ninety miles per hour, I did not have the slightest idea what was under me. I could see the ground, and that was all.
“Amazingly, I made a nice three-point landing and got out of the plane to look around. A farmer came running up to tell me that I had missed his house by only a few feet. He also pointed out a windmill, which I had cleared by about three feet. But the thing I was looking at was the power line I had landed parallel to-only twenty feet away. Directly in front of the plane was a fence and another power line.
“It was a nice little cornfield, but I would never have attempted a landing there in daylight, because it just couldn’t be done. It wasn’t humanly possible. We had to move the plane over into another field the next morning for the take-off, because the cornfield was much too small.
“I have been asked how I did it, and there is only one answer: The Lord did it for me. I wish more people could realize that we are not self-sufficient. We must all put our lives into the hands of Jesus Christ that we may be saved. The Lord takes care of His own, both now and forever. I know that!”
The concluding words of this young pilot are so true. “We must put our lives into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, that we may be saved.” When we come in all our need to the Lord Jesus, trusting Him as the only Savior, we can safely leave our ALL, both in time and for eternity, to Him.
Have you taken the sinner’s place and trusted the sinner’s Savior? As the pilot reminds us, “We MUST put our lives into the hands of the Lord Jesus that we may be saved!”