Ken Roach introduced me this week to something I did not know. Engineers at Stanford University have designed tiny robots which they have called microtugs that can drag objects hundreds of times their weight. A nine gram microtug, for example, can pull a 2.2 lb load vertically up glass. That is equivalent to a human climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. The secret of the microtug’s pulling power is their sticky feet. If you have ever played tug-o-war, you know it is not 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 if everything else around us is falling, the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of God endures forever.” When your feet are set by faith, you can be like a microtug and you can pull more than you had ever imagined possible.”
– Dr. Tim Thompson, Senior Pastor
Microtugs
February 9, 2016
Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures”