Dear Friends of “Dial Daily Bread,”
Is God concerned about our exploring His universe? “The faith of Jesus” is very clear: God is our Redeemer, a personal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, our Father, too. He is infinite; He flung the Milky Way in space, and yet He also notices when a little bird falls to our earthly ground. He has counted the hairs on our heads. He cares about each struggling human being, especially those who call upon Him. All this is what the Bible calls “present truth” (2 Peter 1:12).
Now, how does this personal Creator of the universe look upon the intent of nations to invade His universe? This personal God and Father of us all “formed [the earth] to be inhabited” (Isa. 45:18); does that word “earth” mean also Mars? Does God intend for man to “inhabit” Mars as well as this planet we call earth? And does He intend for us to invade the great universe that lies beyond, through the expertise of NASA or others?
If we become clever enough to physically transport ourselves into God’s vast universe, we should go as emissaries from a planet that has first solved its own problems, that wars are ended and poverty and sin also.
Let our governments solve our world health care problems, our world crime, relieve our bulging prisons, comfort our suicidal youth, create a true heaven on earth with no hell mixed in, transform our cities to be “undimmed with human tears”; only then invade God’s great universe beyond our own appointed home.
And in the meantime, let’s let our Creator/Redeemer prepare us for the heaven He has long been waiting to inaugurate. Let’s stop resisting Him; let’s believe Him. Let’s stand on His side in the “great controversy between Christ and Satan.” It’s real; we’re in it today--right where we are.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: January 20, 2004.
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