A helicopter is a wonderful machine for lifting. But it has to be in the hands of skilled pilot.

I was working as part of the ground crew for Central Helicopters Inc. out of Bozeman, Mont. We were hired to remove seven obsolete antenne from some large towers in southern Colorado.

There were two four-legged towers setting next to each other, one over three hundred feet high and other about 280. They weren’t very far apart but they both had antenne that needed to come off. The tower people climbed the towers. They had to free the antenne and attach the 80-foot rope hanging from the helicopter once it hovered above.

Just prior to taking off, Mark, the pilot, told me that he would remove the antenne from the taller tower first.

What a sight. Those big, round, white antenne, about the size of a VW Bug, being lifted from a tall tower and placed on the ground nearby – all from the power and lift created by spinning helicopter blades. Then he radioed, “When I work on the lower tower, I have to concentrate below. I need you to watch and make sure the blades from the helicopter don’t get any closer than about 10 feet from the other tower.”

It was all accomplished safe and sound.

Do you ever have things that need to be lifted from your soul? Things that have become old and heavy? Sins that need to be removed and set down at the foot of the cross?

God is the skilled One and He has the power to do it. Why not ask Him today?

Rod Bieber is the pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in John Day.