S06E007, Give It All You've Got, Andy B 2 Minute Video
Rushing is a part of life. We might want an-always-relaxed life. But we will miss that bus; get on the wrong train; forget that anniversary; fail to attend a scheduled medical procedure.
That is just life! None of us are good enough to never face the stress of life!
But if everyday is filled with rushing around, then there is something really wrong in our approach to living.
The Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber had 4 jet engines that it shared with the Concorde with one important difference – the Vulcan didn’t have the ability to ‘go to afterburner’. But, instead, the pilot could choose to go beyond 100% of their capacity.
It was only for a limited time, but it gave an extra boost as needed.
I think the rush of life is us working at beyond 100% capacity. Yes, we can do it. But we should be going out of our way to do so, even less if we’re doing that to serve God as God never rushes.
So, give life all you’ve got, but keep a handle on how often you rush.
Just a thought...
Andy B
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[00:00:00] So another Andy B 2 Minute Video.
[00:00:10] Have you ever heard that phrase, gonna work at 110%? And thought, well, that's impossible. A hundred percent is a hundred percent. In engineering, you can actually breach a hundred percent.
[00:00:20] There was a plane. It's now been decommissioned. It's quite old! It was, built and designed not long after the Avro Lancaster in the uk, which of course was a second World War, World War plane.
[00:00:30] The, the Vulcan. Bomber was a four engined plane, and it was used as a bomber, primarily it was supposed to be as a low level nuclear bomb delivery into Eastern Europe. That's kind of what it was designed to do. And there were some fascinating things about that plane!
[00:00:46] One of which, is that it shared the engines that the Concorde used. The difference was that for the Vulcan, it didn't have the ability to do an afterburner. So it couldn't, you know, go down the wrong way and hit the afterburner, and you can see the big jet coming out of the back. It [00:01:00] didn't have that capacity. But what it could do for a short period of time is operate above 100 percent efficiency on the engines.
[00:01:07] So the pilot could go beyond 100%. He could make the engines work at 105 percent, or whatever it happened to be. More than 100%. But it couldn't be for long, because otherwise the engines would just not last, they'd probably blow up or something.
[00:01:22] So you could have an extra surge of power, not quite as good as an afterburner, but definitely a bit of a shunt for the plane, to get it kicking along a bit quicker.
[00:01:32] And I think in our lives with God, we feel like sometimes we need to operate at a hundred and, hundred and five, a hundred and ten percent to get done what God's done for us.
[00:01:42] Now I've seen people who work for a company, and they have these really complicated computerized bits of software that say, well, this person's working at 84%. This person's working at 132%. And it measures the, the, the capacity.
[00:01:56] The problem is who's setting what a hundred percent [00:02:00] looks like. And, of course, if you're beyond a hundred percent, that's, that's a really bad thing. If a hundred percent is maximum capacity and you've got somebody working at 130%, now you've got very inefficient workforce.
[00:02:11] Jet engines can be extended beyond 100 percent of thrust for a very short period of time.
[00:02:19] As Christians, there's going to be the rush of life where we need to go just a bit faster, but it should never be for long because if you're walking for God and with God and by His lead, then although we might need to rush sometimes, it shouldn't be the norm.
[00:02:33] Make sure you're not working beyond 100 percent capacity ,because you're stealing from your time with God, you're stealing from others who can serve God.
[00:02:39] Try and keep it below and you'll last a lot longer and be a lot less tired.
[00:02:43] God's got you, don't worry.
[00:02:46] Just a thought
Andy B, 27/02/2024