Simulators
are tremendous teaching tools—helpful in preparing the aspiring pilot to take
command of an actual aircraft. The devices, however, have a shortcoming. They
create an artificial experience in which the full-blown pressures of handling a
real cockpit cannot be fully replicated.
Real life
is like that, isn’t it? It cannot be simulated. There is no safe, risk-free
environment in which we can experience life’s ups and downs unharmed. The risks
and dangers of living in a broken world are inescapable. That’s why the words
of Jesus are so reassuring. He said, “These things I have spoken to you, that
in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of
good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
Although
we can’t avoid the dangers of life in a fallen world, we can have peace through
a relationship with Jesus. He has secured our ultimate victory.
No life
is more secure than a life surrendered to God. (RBC)
