When the infamous September 11 airplane barreled into the Pentagon, Officer Isaac Hoopii was nearby but outside the building. Immediately he began helping people straggle out of the building--in some cases, carrying them out.
But Hoopii wanted to do more. Wearing only his short-sleeved blue police uniform--no mask, no protective coat, not even a handkerchief--he ran into the inky blackness of the Pentagon. Someone yelled at him to stop. "We gotta get people," he shouted back.
Suffocating on smoke, Hoopii heard the building cracking. He called out, "Is anybody in here? Anybody here?"
Wayne Sinclair and five coworkers were crawling through rubble and had lost all sense of direction when they heard Hoopii's voice. They cried out, and Hoopii responded. "Head toward my voice. Head toward my voice." Following his voice, Sinclair and the others soon made their way out of the crumbling building.*
Jesus gives us direction in life using the same method. In effect He says, "Head towards my voice" to each of us that is struggling for direction and purpose. His "voice?" The Holy Bible is just one of the ways that He speaks to us, and more than once I know that the twisted path I was soon straightened in amazing ways by following the counsel of His Word.
