Proverbs 31:10&31 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. …

If you read my blog yesterday you know I had been grounded. Troubled in my heart I needed to talk to my wife. I did not know if God was pushing me in that direction or if perhaps I was persuading myself of the need. So we talked. Then my wife set me free.

“What does it matter if God was telling you to talk or if it was your own idea?”

She was right. In the end I discovered something about myself that I perhaps would not have gained if not for trusting my wife. The Lord knew my heart, He could have spoken the truth to me, but His plan was for the building up of relationship. He used my wife for the benefit of our relationship.

If the Lord had revealed truth then our relationship would have not changed or improved, I believe and trust in Him. Opening up to my wife and allowing her to become a part of the process strengthened our relationship.

Perhaps this is a great truth about God’s love for all of us, that the relationships we have with one another are important to Him. He wants all of us to be valued. Wives to husbands, brother to brother, sister to sister, the bond of unity doesn’t end with the Lord, it begins.

John 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

1 Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

I’ve been flying high for some time now. I’ve maintained flight by mid-air refueling. The oil for the lamp is like that. It is good to be “in flight”. The sights are wonderful, the places you can go endless.

But I am more than the gift given. The craft needs more than fuel to fly. At some point what is known as flight fatigue sets in and the aircraft needs to be grounded for a time. Ground maintenance is needed.

I have concerns about what will appear in this blog when I need to perform ground maintenance. It is likely that my words will lack the elevation it had a few days ago. It isn’t as though I could bring in another writer, speaker, teacher to fill in while “on vacation”. I am not a church. This is not a sermon.

This is a devotional and as such can only reflect a level of devotion I have to give. Well, I am here and this is what I have. Perhaps you can relate to that. Sometimes we have to show our humanity so that when Christ appears, we can see Him for who He is and not the man with a gift.

Colossians 2:18-19 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

I tell you my condition because I do not want to be seen as one vainly puffed up. I may not add anything to you today. I not the source of increase, God is. You have other sources of nourishment. God willing I will be back in flight soon.

God bless you.