Exit Row Ecstacy
I was in Sydney last weekend ministering at a youth conference.
I booked return flights on 2 different airlines. Both flights, save for this bit of trivia, were, for differing reasons, abject disasters.
Endless waits for baggage drops, security checks, flights and then baggage collection.
Then, after finally arriving in my old stomping ground, when I wasn’t preaching, I spent what seemed like the rest of the weekend in Sydney traffic.
Well at least I got ‘exit row’ seats on both flights.
These are usually found on Row 12 (in about the middle of the plane) and offer the kind of leg room business class passengers enjoy but without the seat going backwards for ultimate comfort.
If you book seats online the airlines usually try and charge you more for exit row seats. My genetic miserliness prevents me from forking out dollars at this point.
I prefer, at the time of check in, to kindly enquire if there are any exit row seats available. And both times this weekend I scored such seats!
The only downside of exit row seats is that you are expected, in the event of an emergency, to open the emergency exits.
So depending on the nature of the emergency, exit row seat holders are the first ones to escape or die.
Every plane must have an emergency exit.
In the event of an emergency there is a way out- every time.
This reminds me of the divine exits that always exist in times of spiritual emergency or crisis, otherwise known as temptation.
Some believers look for such exits, while others simply pass them by and suffer the inevitable consequences.
People like Samson, King David and Solomon rushed right past their exit rows while others like Joseph took them with both hands.
There is grace and help for every temptation if only we ask God for them.
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13
By Robert Apps
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what no more election punditry?
I want to ‘move forward’ from my earlier posts.
Good post Rob. We do have a choice now as believers regarding temptations, we can escape or we can succumb. Thanks for the reminder.
thanks Steve.
I should have added in my post:
when we take God’s exits they only lead to life and sometimes deliver from death itself.