Nothing could be more of an inconvenience than a delayed flight, but Christian musician Kirk Franklin said that situations like that are actually a blessing in disguise.
He recalled an instance in his Patheos blog where he arrived early for a flight to New York City, only to be met with a very long delay.
"As we prepared to pull out from the gate, there was an obvious long delay but no announcement. We were left to assume that it must've been a minor problem. Until minutes turned into hours. Before you could even grip your mind around it we were stuck on a plane on the runway for three and a half hours," he said.
Frustrations soared as toilets began to stink and people were still left clueless as to why the plane refused to take off. Franklin even called up his friends from New York and asked if there was any natural calamity there because their plane chose to stay put in the Dallas runway and other planes were stacked up behind them.
But everything was fine in New York.
"After a long period of frustration and confusion and leaning to our own understanding, the pilot finally informed us why we'd been stuck in a tight, stinky, frustrating situation with no communication with the one in charge," said Franklin. "A terrible lighting storm between Dallas and New York hit hours before we were to take off. The air traffic control guys were scrambling to help get flights that were already in a holding pattern in the air, because of the earlier storm, safely on the ground."
He, along with everybody else on the plane were floored. They were delayed not because of some airline trouble, but because of their own safety.
Franklin applied the lesson he learned from that situation to God's mysterious decisions. There are times when Christians feel denied by God and He does not offer any explanation why. But Franklin strongly urged Christians to trust God and never lose faith, no matter how frustrating their current situations might be.
"In the great scheme of directing all of the destinations and dreams of billions of His creations on the planet, He knows what lives should take off when, and what lives are actually paving the way for other lives to come," explained Franklin.
