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What the pioneers of Vikram-1 teach us about letting go before reaching forward
throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.
Ephesians 4:22-24— NLTRead Ephesians 4 (NLT)
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Vikram-1, identified as India's first private orbital rocket, successfully completed its debut launch. The flight makes India the third country, after the United States and China, to have a private company successfully launch a rocket into orbit.
A debut launch reveals how readily we attach inner hopes to outer breakthroughs. When Vikram-1 succeeded on its first attempt, and India became only the third country with a private company to reach orbit, the story naturally felt like a beginning: a new capability, a new era, a new horizon.
But the tension in the moment is useful. A first success deserves celebration, yet it is not completion. It does not prove divine favor, guarantee future missions, or make a nation spiritually renewed. Ephesians speaks of renewal in more demanding terms: not simply reaching a higher point, but throwing off an old way of life and being renewed in thoughts, attitudes, and character. The passage does not promise that every bold start will succeed; it asks whether we are willing to leave something behind.
That is where the news touches us. We may admire new frontiers while avoiding the quieter departure that faith requires: releasing old resentments, dishonest habits, fear of failure, or the need to prove ourselves. The courage celebrated in a launch is not only the courage to build something new. It is also the courage to become new, humbly and patiently, with God renewing what no external achievement can fix.
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