Missing Luggage
It’s
a terrible feeling. You’re standing at the luggage carousel just after getting
off your flight, watching the luggage come out of the shoot, waiting for your
own suitcases to show up. People are
grabbing theirs’ off the moving belt. The number of bags is beginning to
dwindle. There’s just one more bag left
circling, and it’s not yours. You wait
another couple of minutes thinking that yours is about to come out of the shoot
any moment. But, nothing happens. And you realize, although you have gotten to
your destination, your luggage has not. That’s
exactly what happened to me last week when I arrived in Managua,
Nicaragua. Both of my suitcases had been
left behind in Miami. Of course, I was just
a little bit upset!
I
will say, however, that considering the number of people traveling and the
enormous amount of luggage an airline has to process in a day, I am somewhat
amazed that not more luggage gets mixed up, left behind, or sent to the wrong
destination. It is something we take for
granted. Thus, when our luggage doesn’t show up on time, we are a bit upset,
asking questions like, “How could this happen to me?” and “What am I going to
do now?”
Of
course, we do have a right to expect our luggage to show up at our destination
because it is in some ways a promise that the airline has made to us. As we
hand our bags over to the person at the ticket counter; and as they receive it,
tag it, and place it on their belt to who-knows-where, they are in essence
making a promise to us that, if we entrust them with our bags they will get
those bags to the same place to which we are going. But, an airline is run by people. And, no
matter how good their intentions, they cannot always keep their promises. There
will be times when they will fail; times when someone messes up; times when they
break their promise—just as we all do at one time or another! And, we end up with missing luggage.
I
like what the Bible says about God and his promises: “Not
one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel failed; every one
was fulfilled.” (Joshua 21:45 –
NIV) This verse was a reminder to the
people then and a reminder to us today, that God will never mess up; that he
will keep every promise he has ever made to us.
We could say, God will never lose our luggage!
So
today, let’s put our trust in God and in His Word, believing that, “he who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23 – NIV) He truly is!
Have
a great day!
Pastor Tim
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