When the Model Airplane Stopped Obeying, It Crashed and “Died”

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

When young, airplanes fascinated me.  I liked flying toys.  Eventually I built and flew radio controlled model airplanes.

Once, while demonstrating one of my airplanes for a group of Boy Scouts, the airplane’s receiver shut down.  Suddenly, just as I was commanding the airplane to land, it stopped receiving the signals which I was still transmitting.  It quickly fell from the sky, spun into the runway, and broke apart.  It was “dead”!

Scripture describes the fall of humanity in similar terms.  God had commanded His creation, Adam and Eve, to obey his command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Just as my model airplane ignored my digital commands, Adam and Eve ignored God’s command.  He had warned them that, if they did this, they would die. 

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:17).

They chose to disobey God and, just as He had warned, they died spiritually and, eventually, physically.  It was similar to the crash of my airplane which stopped heeding my digital commands.

In each case, once the fall occurred, no ability remained for the fallen creation to obey its creator.  Neither the airplane, nor Adam and Eve, retained any ability to restore themselves.  Adam and Eve were spiritually dead!

Only God can breathe life, faith, and desire to come to Him, into a dead soul.  Jesus told His disciples,

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:44).

After its fall from the sky, my airplane required rebuilding and reactivation.  Without this, it would never again obey my commands to fly.  This was expensive.  Redeeming fallen humans, however, was far more expensive.  It required the blood sacrifice of God the Son, Jesus Christ, at Calvary.  A dead soul has no power to even seek salvation unless that desire is implanted by God Himself (see Romans 3:11).

If you’ve been given desire for Christ’s salvation, praise Him, with your softened heart, for His mercy to you.  Though you are responsible to repent, only His great power can enable you to do so.

Repent of sin, asking Him for forgiveness!

 

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