The flight had been uneventful until the moment the captain announced from the flight deck that the plane would have to cross a major storm. “Please tighten your seat belts. We will be in for quite a ride,” the voice from the cockpit said in ending the announcement. Soon after, the plane began to shake violently as it fought its way through the storm. Overhead bins opened; people sat tense in their seats. After a particularly violent shudder of the plane, someone shrieked in the back of the plane. Images of a wing breaking off and the plane careening to the earth flashed through a few minds. All passengers looked tense and fearful—all except a little girl seated in the front row of economy. She was busy drawing a picture on the open tray table before her. Now and again she would look out the small window at a particularly impressive lightning strike, but then she would calmly resume her drawing.
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Memory texts in this guide
- 1 Psalm 84:2, NKJV My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- 2 1 Corinthians 10:11, NKJV Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
- 3 James 3:16, ESV For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
- 4 Psalm 51:10, NKJV Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
- 5 Matthew 11:28, NKJV Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- 6 2 Peter 3:17-18, NKJV You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
- 7 Genesis 45:5, NKJV But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- 8 Psalm 27:1, NKJV The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- 9 Genesis 2:3, NKJV Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
- 10 Leviticus 23:3, NKJV Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
- 11 1 Corinthians 10:6, ESV Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
- 12 Jonah 4:11, NKJV And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?
- 13 1 Corinthians 2:9, NKJV Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.