Hello
everyone!
It’s been a while! I've been caught up in a couple
of activities here and there. The middle of the year is usually a good time to
revisit one’s goals and re-strategize in order to maximize the
remaining days of the year.
So yesterday, I saw
on the TV, an advertisement of Nedgroup Investments (one of the largest banking
Institutions in South Africa) which featured Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ; the Pilot of the US Airways
Flight 1549 that crash-landed on Hudson River on the 15th of January 2009 in New York. Anyone
remembers that story? Let me give a quick summary of that incident. The
plane had taken off from the LaGuardia Airport in New York heading to a final
destination of Washington and was struck by a flock of birds just 3 minutes
into the flight .The plane lost engine power and ditched into the Hudson River
in Manhattan, New York with Captain Sully as the pilot in charge. Long and
short; all 150 passengers and the 5 members of crew survived! Not only did the pilot
do a mind-blowing job of landing the plane in the river, he monitored the
process of evacuating the passengers and
was the last person to come out of the plane. Bravo!
Back to the advert I saw yesterday, Captain Sully made a statement that made me smile. He said “I did what was necessary; I am not a hero, I am just a pilot who used 30 years of experience to do my job” and the advert ended with the phrase- “In the right hands, everything is possible” I instantly fell in love with that advert and I couldn't but pen something down from it. Needless to say the heroic act of Captain Sully is one of the most gallant and courageous acts of mankind with an astonishing testimony of no life lost in that incident! Now I call that a best seller story. Of course, many great things have happened to him after the incident; which included an invitation to the White House, a special resolution passed to honour him and his team amongst others but that is not the focus for this write up..
In the right hands,
everything is possible. A man; with the interest of the people under his care,
masterminded a successful landing of a plane in the eye of the most difficult circumstances and he did it well, attributing it to his years of experience.
I want to talk to you about someone: The Almighty, Omnipotent, Omniscient and
the Creator of all things who upholds ALL things by the words of His power. He
has experience in everything you can think about; He is the Ancient of days who
was not created and who cannot be eliminated. He has been from the ancient and
will continue to be from everlasting to everlasting! Has anyone ever seen a
star fall or the moon unable to stay in its orbit, there-by dropping to the
earth? The entire universe of about 7 billion people, innumerable company of
angels, those who have passed on to glory; just men made perfect are all under
His care.
Deuteronomy 33: 26- There is no
one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to help you, and
in His Excellency on the clouds.27The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will
say, ‘Destroy!’
Friend, God’s hands
are right under you, to keep you from falling, to uphold you when you are weak,
to bare you safely to the place called destiny. Because you are in the right
hands, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE UNTO YOU. Isaiah 48:13 says- My hand laid the foundation of the
earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they
stand forth together. God’s hands are so deep and wide that he could measure the
waters in the hollows of His hands. Now that is serious! (Who has measured the
waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?-Isaiah 40:12).
With the same
hands, He satisfies the desires of every living being! (Psalm 145:16) and when
He opens those hands, we all are filled with every good thing we desire (Psalm
104:28). That same hands are so long that when Moses asked to see God’s glory,
He covered Moses’ face with His hands till He passed and Moses was only able to
see his back (Exodus 33:22). With that outstretched hands, He created the whole
of the universe and those hands still work wonders till date. I have seen those
hands many times at work in my life, I see them in the life of those around me,
I hear amazing testimonies and surely, you will experience the power of those
great Hands of His in your life too!
Those Hands brought
the Israelites out of Egypt, divided the red sea, drowned Pharaoh and his
chariots, delivered Lot and his family from a perishing Sodom, struck down the
walls of Jericho, shut the mouth of the lion for Daniel’s sake, wrought
unimaginable and naturally impossible miracles! Above all, He upholds us by His
hands!
Considering how
gigantic and mighty the hands of our God are, I truly agree with the advert,
that in the right hands, all things are possible!
The Pen……
The advert can be
seen at http://www.ordinaryday.co.za/#prettyPhoto[iframes]/0/
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