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No one would have believed the world shutting down when it did. I can hardly believe that I am sitting in my sunny backyard with my barefeet on the somewhat green grass and leaves on a November day in Alberta. Some might believe that a man could eat an airplane piece by piece when they read Ripley’s Believe it or Not April 2, 2019 article. Even the disciples didn’t believe Jesus would leave them so soon and others from Jesus’ day thought their miracles were absurd.
At the Songshan Airport in Taipei, 60 passengers checked in to the airport, handed the attendant their boarding passes, cleared security, got through the boarding gate and climbed aboard China Airlines Airbus. Their destination was Nowhere! Apparently, the contest was to role play a day at the airport to satisfy their nostalgia of not being able to fly during the pandemic. So the passengers buckled up, were greeted by the flight attendants, sat on the tarmack and when the seatbelt sign went off, deplaned and went home.
Another absurd idea is to take a hotel room in Fukuoka, Japan for $1.20 CAD per night. There is a catch though. You must be wiling to be live streamed on YouTube with half a million viewers. Luckily the bathroom is private!
The catch - one has to be willing to share one’s privacy; or win the contest; or only eat two pounds of steel each day to finish off the airplane meal. The amazing aspect of being a Christ follower is that there is no “catch.” One must simply give one’s life to Jesus and ask Him to do the impossible by forgiving our sins, giving us grace and loving us despite anything from our past. We don’t need to imagine what it would be like to know the God of the Universe. We can experience it each moment. He wants a personal relationship with us. We can share God’s love, we have won God’s heart and He sustains and keeps us with living water. He sees everything and nothing can separate us from his love. That’s amazing; not absurd!
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? ... No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow — not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below — indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35, 37-39)