Spiral or Circle?

When we say we're spiraling we usually mean we're falling out of control. Like an airplane that's become unstable, only with deft flight control manipulation will the pilot correct the plummeting spiral to keep his ship and himself from augering into the earth. Circling, on the other hand, is a carefully controlled maneuver. Usually reserved for maintaining position, the pilot holds the circle's center directly above his destination. In which situation is the pilot working productively? In which situation is the pilot thrashing the controls uselessly? In which situation will knowledge of and acquiescence to the laws of physics save the pilot's physical life? Physical life, and the physical laws we must obey to preserve it, seem important. But most of us innately sense another realm of life, one for which this temporal life is nothing more than a preface. We have the sense of something else, something more enduring, something that makes this life of clocks and calendars seem as significant as a swirl of dust blown over the edge of the Grand Canyon. Through Psalm 95, the God Who Is gives us a sense of that eternal scope and the awe-full reverence with which we must approach it. He has reserved His rest, His eternal Sabbath, for those few who look beyond the swirl of dust to the Savior who bought us with His blood. He revealed the eternal, spiritual law by which we might pull out of our spiral unto death, to circle Him, praising for eternity.