Sunday, October 01, 2006

Anything is possible


This is a P-51 Mustang and it was built over 30 years after the first plane was flown.

Funny that the first plane was flown for 3 years before the newspapers would cover the story as no one believed it....until a movie was made and shown of the flights....!!!!

In 1877, the Methodists held their annual conference at Westfield College in Illinois. David Foster writes about it in his book "Accept No Mediocre Life". The President of the college said, "I believe we are coming into a time of great inventions. For example, I believe men will fly through the air like birds."

The bishop accused him of heresy! "The Bible says flight is reserved for the angels so we'll have no such talk here."
(Funny I have an earned Master's degree in the Bible and I have never read that anywhere in the Bible)

Some people use the Bible to explain why certain things can't happen. I believe that's a gross misinterpretation. I think the Bible explains why anything can happen.

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." "All things are possible." "God is able to immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine."

For what it's worth, the unbelieving bishop's name was Wright.

He had two sons named Orville and Wilbur Wright. They didn't have government issued pilot licenses! But that didn't keep them from flying! God has a funny way of doing things...they had no building permits either...

George Bernard Shaw said, "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not'?"

I'm praying that God would raise up a 'Why Not Generation' - a generation of dreamers that asks "why not". Why Not?