READ: Isaiah 40:8
Ken Roach introduced me this week to something I didn’t know. Engineers at Stanford University have designed tiny robots which they’ve called MicroTugs. They can drag objects hundreds of times their weight. A 9-gram MicroTug, for example, can pull a 2.2-pound load vertically up glass. That’s equivalent to a human climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. The secret of the MicroTugs’ pulling power is their sticky feet. If you’ve ever played tug-of-war you know, it’s not about how strong your arms are, but how much traction you can get with your feet. If you feel like you are slipping and sliding and getting pulled down by the weight of this life, don’t focus on increasing your own strength. Focus on planting your feet firmly in the Word of God. Isaiah reminds us that even when everything else around us is falling, “The grass withers, the flower fades, but he Word of God will stand forever.” When your feet are set by faith, you can be like a MicroTug, and you can pull more than you ever imagined possible.
Ken Roach introduced me this week to something I didn’t know. Engineers at Stanford University have designed tiny robots which they’ve called MicroTugs. They can drag objects hundreds of times their weight. A 9-gram MicroTug, for example, can pull a 2.2-pound load vertically up glass. That’s equivalent to a human climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. The secret of the MicroTugs’ pulling power is their sticky feet. If you’ve ever played tug-of-war you know, it’s not about how strong your arms are, but how much traction you can get with your feet. If you feel like you are slipping and sliding and getting pulled down by the weight of this life, don’t focus on increasing your own strength. Focus on planting your feet firmly in the Word of God. Isaiah reminds us that even when everything else around us is falling, “The grass withers, the flower fades, but he Word of God will stand forever.” When your feet are set by faith, you can be like a MicroTug, and you can pull more than you ever imagined possible.
– Dr. Tim Thompson