Airports require pilots to file a flight plan that includes their travel route and destination.
A missionary pilot, often flying to and from small landing strips across uncharted territory, must know how to get where he's going and where to put the plane down when he arrives. Or he may have to know and rely on visual checkpoints such as mountain peaks and rivers. We know that our destination is heaven, and we know that each day we are to follow the course of obedience that has been carefully mapped out for us in the Bible. And the dead in Christ will rise first. We know it leads at last to heaven above, To which our souls will rise one glorious day.