I was watching a show sometime back called “Flight of The Phoenix”. It was a pretty good movie and it got me thinking about life. In this movie there is a group of oil rig workers who are being flown out of a job site they were on in the middle of the desert and their plane crashes. They spend part of the movie waiting for their company to send out a search and rescue party but finally they realize that it is not coming and they build a plane out of the remaining parts of their crashed plane. It is a really far-fetched story but there is a definite correlation between that story and our lives.
As a result of our nature that we are born into, we are destined to wreck and then have to figure out what we are going to do. There are a few options we have as a result of the wreck. The first is to do nothing but just go along with the flow and hope for the best. Second, we can make a plan and then try to create something with which to save ourselves.
The Third is really the only choice that will work and that is dependent on someone else to rescue us. We are all living a life that has been wrecked, whether we know it or not and desperately need someone to help us rise out of the ashes. (The meaning of the word Phoenix in case you didn’t know) This is literally what Jesus does for us. We are all destined to go to hell after we finish our journey here on earth and there is nothing that “We” can do about it, but Jesus can raise us out of those flames and ashes. In fact He desires to do that. Acts 4:12 says, “And there is salvation in no one else for there is no other name (Jesus) under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” This tells us that we cannot depend on ourselves or others to bring us out of the ashes but only Jesus Christ. We are reminded of this in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”
I have a few questions for you whether you have or have not made a decision to follow Jesus. Are you willing to let Jesus pull you out of the ashes? Do you truly desire to be a Phoenix or are you content with where you are, whether it is trying to rescue yourself or just acting like you are allowing Jesus to raise you?
It’s time to trust Jesus completely, and let Him make you a Phoenix.
BXFC
(Be Xtreme For Christ)
Pastor Sean