The Nonsmoking Flight

I KNOW people who will say that they can’t go two hours without smoking. But put them on a plane to England and they’ll go eight hours without smoking.

How can people who can’t go two hours without smoking get on a plane for eight hours and not smoke? Because the commander of the plane tells them that they are on a nonsmoking flight. They can’t smoke on the plane. If people who smoke want to get from one point to another by plane, they have to give up something.

The commander of the ship has told them that they can’t take the trip if they don’t abide by the rules. As Christians, our problem is not an inability to change. Our problem is that we don’t know who we are talking to. If we really knew that we were dealing with the “Commander,” the all-powerful God, then we would find that power to do things we didn’t think we had power for.