Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Tom Felton, and I titled Our Reading, Who We Listened to.

I've got to declare an emergency.

My pilot's deceased.

Doug White nervously uttered those words to the control tower monitoring his flight.

Minutes after takeoff, the pilot of the private plane Doug's family had chartered suddenly passed away.

Doug stepped into the cockpit with just three months' training in flying less sophisticated aircraft. He then carefully listened to controllers

at a local airport who talked him through landing the plane. Later, Doug said, they saved my family

from an almost certain fiery death. We have one who alone can help us navigate the challenges in life.

Moses, speaking to the Israelites in Deuteronomy 18, said,

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you.

You must listen to Him.

This promise pointed to a succession of prophets God provided for his people, but it also spoke of the Messiah.

Both Peter and Stephen would later state that this ultimate prophet was Jesus.

He alone came to tell us the loving and wise instructions of God.

During Christ's life, God the Father in Mark

9 said,

This is my son.

Listen to him.

To live wisely

and avoid crashing and burning in this life,

let's listen to Jesus as he speaks

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