A spaceflight requires a lot of effort.
If engineers looked at the logistics of the situation, the craft would never get off the ground. They would get wrapped up in the pull of gravity, the amount of fuel required, and the risk to human life.
Then there’s the dollar cost. How many new machines must be invented just to thrust a rocket from the surface of the planet into the weightless void of space? And to put a person aboard and protect them properly to ensure they return safe and whole?
Why bother, when we can’t travel to another star. The distances are simply too great.
The lame man at the pool of Bethesda must have felt much the same. Why bother? It was nice to imagine walking, but the effort was too great. His legs didn’t work properly, no one was there to help him, and he could pass the languid days on his mat, letting the time slip by until his life was over.
Our Lord had other ideas in John 5:8.
“Jesus said to him, ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk.’ ”
What’s holding us back? Finances? We must take up our bed and walk. Relationships? Take up our bed and walk. Health issues? Take up our bed and walk.
How? Through reading the Bible, prayer, and faith and trust in our Lord, Jesus Christ.
We don’t need to lie on our bed any longer hoping for something or someone to change things for us. We need to accept God’s intervention, take action, move into life, and change our situation for the better.
We must find our direction in God.
When Jesus is our spiritual engineer, he’ll launch us skyward into greater things than we ever imagined.
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