The Holy Spirit Our Guide

I read recently that there are blind people that ski. They wear vests with the words BLIND SKIER on them and are assisted by a guide who skis beside or behind them giving specific instructions. The guide is never out of range where the skier cannot hear his voice and there are two forms of communication used to give assistance. One is the tapping together of two ski poles to assure the blind person that the guide is there. The other is the guide’s voice speaking simple instructions what to do next. Commands such as: “Go right. Turn left. Stop. Slow. Skier coming up on your right.” The only responsibility of the blind person is to have complete trust and immediate obedience to the commands. Peter Lord says, “Life is much like skiing downhill blind. We cannot see five seconds into the future. We cannot see the struggles and tears to come or all the other “skiers” who might run into us or we into them. But God has given us the Holy Spirit to be our Guide. Our only responsibility is to listen and obey. Before we can obey we must listen. To listen we need to know the voice of our guide.” No doubt this was the reason for Jesus’ most repeated statement, “He that has ears to hear, let him hear.” He used it 15 times. By doing so He stressed the importance of our hearing the one person who can assist us in our daily walk as well as in times of desperation--the Holy Spirit. During those occasions when you find yourself going down life’s ski slope with no sense of direction tune out everything and everyone else around you and listen to your Guide. His voice will give you every command needed to make a safe landing.