Could you really not see something that big?

Something To Think About, a Missing 777: 3/13

I've heard several people ask in recent days, "How do you lose an airplane?!"   "How do you lose an airplane?"  It's a question I've heard several times over the last few days.  My friends are referring to the tragic disappearance of a Malaysian Airlines flight in route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. You can read the news stories that are fraught with stolen passports, radio silence, and course deviation.  If somebody did something wrong, it wouldn't be the first time somebody tried a cover-up, but getting back to the original question, it could be that something as big as a modern jetliner really is lost.  A Washington Post article reports: "Despite the impression that people get when they use Bing and Google Earth and Google Maps, those high-resolution images are still few and far between,” said John Amos, president of SkyTruth, a nonprofit organization that uses such images to engage the public on environmental issues. The pilots of Flight MH370 never communicated distress. No one activated an SOS signal. No debris or fuel slick has been found. The plane’s flight recorders may be on the seafloor, buried in sand." Another story I read read gave the search area as being the size of the nation of Hungary. We forget that not too terribly long ago whole armies and fleets of ships remained hidden from enemy surveillance. Just because something is big, and apparently obvious, doesn't mean that it will be found. Jesus used an interesting metaphor that involves this "I can't see it." tendency:  "Why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye* when you have a log in your own?  How can you think of saying to your friend,* ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye?"  (Matthew 7:3–5, NLT) When I think about how often I've missed the obvious in my own life, it makes the story of the lost airplane a whole lot more believable, and more importantly, it causes me to realize the importance of the prayer of Psalm 73 with greater clarity. It's STTA. Explore the Good News here.