One of my lifetime desires has been to hang glide. Recently while I was in Peru that opportunity presented itself. While in Lima, waiting for my missionary to finish at the dentist, I saw the hang gliders across the street leaping from the cliffs which over looked the sea. For a nominal fee they would take you up for a few minutes. I went for it. They strapped me in with the pilot, connecting me to the chute. The instruction was, “Do you see that cliff? Run toward it.” It was a sheer precipice that rose more than 200 feet above the sea. We ran in tandem with our chute and leaped from the cliff. The first movement was downward, but then the chute caught air and the lift of the sea breeze flowing against the cliffs. It then lofted us high above the ground carrying us effortless along the beautiful shoreline.
The whole thing became a faith analogy. Faith is the substance (assurance) of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen. (Heb.11:1) Faith isn’t an air-headed fantasy without foundation. It is more than hope. It has substance. It is not jumping off into the thin air of uncertainty. It is a calculated, truth base effort. There are spiritual laws at work that enable flight. To literally jump off the cliff, there is the downward pull of the world. It is the law of gravity. It is a strong and constant pull that keeps people grounded on the earth. But there is another law that transcends and trumps the law of gravity. It is the law of aerodynamics. This law, is the law of lift and it sustains the fact of flight. Spiritually speaking in our world, there is the law of Sin and Death. It is the subterranean, diabolical pull of this fallen world. But there is another law which trumps this law. It is the law of the Spirit and Life. It lifts you above this fallen world. …Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death.(Rom 8:2)
We leap in defiance of the laws of this fallen world to soar in the air of His Unshakable Kingdom.
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AWESOME.
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