April 13 1970, An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, not only forcing the aborting of the third planned lunar landing, but putting it's 3 man crew in mortal danger. One of the most famous lines quoted in the movie, “Failure is not an option”.
But things had failed, the Oxygen tank exploded and along the way various other equipment broke down. In the midst of facing one failure, the scientists and astronaugts left in the conference room left to figure out how to save 3 lives, put aside all negatives. Instead of saying, why won't it work? They said what can we do to make it work! The result, success and on April 17th the 3 man crew landed safely back on earth.
The trial in the space shuttle and the trial in the conference room were both inter-related and to solve the one, they had to solve the other first. I've been blown away by this today realizing that at times we may go through one failure now and find a means to cope and survive, but it could be a failure a few years down the line that finally brings the breakthrough and brings you to the point where you can put the “equipment” together to make the plan work.
God is so involved in every tiny detiail of our lives and we must never give up hope. You may have been wondering, why I am I going through this now? Chin up! The answer may only come in a few years time. We need to learn to trust God implicitly and know that he has a deep and profound plan for our lives, if we will surrender to him and allow him to guide us.
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