No Fire, No Liftoff
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★WE’VE all watched the space shuttle lift off from planet Earth to go into outer space into the heavens. It sits there on the launchpad ready to move into a whole different realm. But that space shuttle is going absolutely nowhere until fire has been ignited, a blazing fire that takes it from the gravitational pull of Earth and delivers it to the glory of the heavens.
No fire, no liftoff. No igniting, no destiny. The countdown begins. By the time they hit zero and the boosters are ignited, the ship is ready to take off into outer space.
Many of us have been earthbound too long. No matter how much we desire to lift off to accomplish our mission, we don’t seem to be able to get off the ground. What’s keeping us from getting off the ground and getting to the mission? The countdown is taking place.
We’re getting older by the day. What keeps getting in the way?
The point
Without the ignited fire of the boosters, the space shuttle cannot escape gravity. Without the fire of God's power, we remain earthbound and miss our destiny.