In 1943, in the context of the Second World War, a B-24 bomber called “Lady Be Good” together with a squadron of B-24 of the United States Air Force, took off from the Libyan city of Suluq crossing the Mediterranean to complete the night mission to bomb the Italian city of Naples. Due to a sand storm only 4 bombers were able to continue the mission and reach their objective. After the operation and during the journey back to Suluq, Lieutenant William Hatton communicates by radio that the navigation systems of his B-24 are failing, encountering serious difficulties in locating.
The crew of the “Lady Be Good” had fallen far behind the other 3 planes, and the cloud-filled night sky made it impossible to locate the route back to base.
Several flares were launched from Suluq, which could not be seen by both pilots due to the poor weather conditions. Finally the Lady be Good never returned to her base. The Lady Be Good was found 15 years later 435 miles from her base in the middle of the Sahara desert.
Before knowing what happened, let’s look at Psalm 1 that tells us about the 2 paths, one represents life and the other ends in death. It is important to remember that in the gospel there are no middle terms.
Jesus taught this same truth in Matthew 7:13-14.
The Narrow Gate 13 ‘Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy[a] that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

In today’s world, where personal opinions seem to be more important than God’s truth, Jesus teaches that it is easy to go the broad way, many walk it, by the currents of this world they are literally carried as a leaf is carried. by the wind as indicated in psalm 1 in verse 4 “The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.”

Going back to the story of the Lady Be Good, it was discovered that that night on the return flight to its base, after having completed the mission, strong tailwinds pushed the Lady Be Good and apparently it flew over its base without realizing that they were passing over three hours ahead of schedule, despite the fact that their flight instruments indicated that they were already at their base, the logic of being three hours earlier prevented them from believing and trusting their instruments, producing a serious navigation error that would lead the crew to death in the middle of the Sahara desert.

Proverbs 14:12 says “There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death”

In contrast to this tragedy Proverbs 3:7 says Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

To close let’s observe the words of Jesus “For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

There are wonderful promises of finding and staying on that narrow path described in Psalm 1 as: Joy, delight in the law of the Lord, being like trees planted by streams of fresh water, bearing fruit, ever green, in Contrasted with those who are like dry leaves blown by the wind with no destination, no will and on the way to destruction, Those who are in Jesus who is the way and abide in his words receive life.