Planes Planes Planes

So Saturday we took the family to the Mt. Home Airforce Base Airshow. it was wonderful, but I thought of an analogy I wanted to remember and record.

We had the opportunity to stand inside a  B-52 Bomber.  It was huge and amazing. It was amazing how many people actually fly that huge plane- only a crew of 5. Then we watched small planes do skywriting in the sky as they did loops and dives, and then we watched jets speed by doing rolls and quick manuvers. It was facinating, but the thing I found my self reflecting on, was how each and every plane was unique with it's own purpose and design. They weren't created equal for very specific reasons. The B-52 carries bombs, the jet plane for speed, the smaller plane for crop dusting.

Each of us are like these planes. We all have been created in a particular way with a particular mission here on earth and we have been given the design, the talents, the capacity, the skills, to do just that.  God wouldn't ask a crop duster plane to carry a 100 ton bomb across the ocean, nor would he ask a B-52 to take a joy ride to draw a smiley face in the sky.  We all have a purpose and mission. Each one unique- instead of worrying that we aren't like the others around us, we should test our own skills, and see what we are capable of.  The pilots were very skilled and knew exactly how to get their planes to do what they were suppose to do. I am sure that didn't happen overnight.  they had to work at it.  We have skills, abilities and talents that if we too will work at it, we will find exactly what we can do, and what God would have us do. And we like these planes can "complete our mission" on earth.