Let's imagine for a moment that you're walking down the street, or wherever you may be walking, and all of a sudden, an elephant falls from the sky and onto your head. The elephant gets up after awhile and walks away with you stuck to his butt. It's a weird image, but that is probably the only I can describe what I felt today when I flew in the "Weightless Wonder": extreme pressure all over my body, then I was shot into the air with no pressure at all.
On board the aircraft, I was able to experience what it felt like to be weightless as well as extremely weighed down by two times my weight. This opportunity was so worth all the frustration and stress I went through. So the plane takes off and travels to a restricted air space owned by NASA I think and once it arrives there, everyone gets to their spots and waits for the parabolas to begin. For the first few parabolas, the crew wants you to adapt to the environment so you can ease into to it instead of going head on. Once I got to my station and made sure everything was ready, I laid down in front of the glove box and held on to the steel frame of the table it was sitting on just waiting for the amazing experience to begin. At first I felt the elephant just squeezing the life out of me and as soon as I felt him, I felt extremely light. Almost instantly, I saw my feet just rise before my very eyes and soon after, my whole body went with it! I tried to hang on the to table, but I just couldn't stay down! I floated to the top and my body felt as though the ceiling was the floor and vice versa! Throughout the entire flight, I was just in extreme awe that I was floating, I barely got any research done! Besides the experiment, I twisted, turned, rolled, flipped and twirled around in the air with ease! It is something that I can not and will not forget about in the near future.
Of course, this also counts as some great revelation as well. While on the ride home, I was thinking to myself, what if sin could be measured in units of weight? What if every sin I had committed was transformed to an ounce of added baggage on my person? I came to the conclusion that I would probably be feeling the way I felt laying down on the aircraft with so much excess weight just overpowering my movements. My sin would just take me down hard and keep me incapacitated. I would feel my arms being forced down by something. I would truly feel the weight of my sins. However, as I felt this weight upon me, I somehow felt like my burden was lifted off me entirely to the point where even the weight of my flesh was overwhelmed by the power of the person who lifted this burden from me. This was truly amazing because I was able to physically feel what happened when Christ took all my burdens away. As the transition from 2G to 0G was instant, so was the transition from my old life to my new one. Now, I just can't even begin to imagine something. If I could barely carry this weight, how can Jesus stand to carry my sins upon the cross, not to mention the sins of the WHOLE WORLD! It's just not possible...unless you can do the impossible. How great is my God that He is quick to love me and take away all my burdens. He carries my burden to the point where I feel like I'm just floating away and that nothing can possibly bring me down when I'm with the Father.
I felt really dizzy from the transitions from 0G to 2G. It got so bad after a while that I had to sit out and hurl chunks into my plastic bag. In the same way, when I am just floating up above and for some reason, allow sin to enter my life, I feel immediately thrown down to the floor. I can't move at all because sin is just paralyzing my movements. It always feels worse when you fall straight down to the ground carrying a huge weight. I'm so grateful that I never have to feel like sin is paralyzing me. I am free from sin! I am no longer bound in chains to sin! I am free to float up above with Jesus! I am free to stand in His presence and let Him take me away! I Love it!!
We have a lot of photos and loads of videos so once we put those together, I will be more than happy to show you my experience!
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