Somewhere over the Altai Mountains, experts now believe, Captain Yaroslav Kudrinski was giving his two children lessons on how to fly. His 15-year-old son and his sister, inexplicably disengaged the plane's auto pilot, stalling the craft and sending it into a dive. In a desperate effort to stave off disaster, someone lunged for the instrument panel. Whoever it was very nearly succeeded; Flight 593 crashed with its nose slightly up and its wings level, indicating that seconds before impact, someone regained at least control. But it was too late. Flight 593 was a journey to doom, for at the controls was the wrong pilot, a child!

This story reminds us that on the journey of life, we must be sure that we have the right pilot in control. Many choose to live without God and are under the dominion of Satan, the god of this world. To live like this is to have the wrong pilot in control of your life and to be blind to your eternal destiny. Many are confident that they are in control of their lives. The fact that they are ignorant of where they will spend eternity proves that they are deluded. As sinners we are lost. We need to be saved. Only God’s Son, Jesus Christ, can do this for He died for sinners on Calvary’s cross and rose again the third day. Without Christ as your personal Saviour, life’s journey will be a journey to hell and destruction. With Him you will safely reach heaven! Listen to the words of the Lord Jesus: "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." (John 10v27-28)