A Man on the Moon

There has been a lot of talk and discussion this week about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo landing. I can remember the night of July 20, 1969 very clearly, even though I was small. We didn't have a color TV then so we went next door to my grandparent's who did. I remember watching the events unfold and listening to the grown-ups talk about it. But mostly I remember walking out of their house and looking up at the moon, thinking that there were humans up there. I do remember thinking how close God seemed.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Vast array is a great choice of words there. It is, like Louie Giglio says, just God showing off.

This is most likely man's greatest achievement to date. If you look back through our history, what else compares? If we could cure cancer, maybe. Will the creation of artificial intelligence match, or are we just trying to play God there? I believe that one of the factors in the timing of the Lord's return will be because through cloning, artificial intelligence, and similar things, God will judge that we are being too big for our britches. Just like the Tower of Babel.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

There is a museum in Neil Armstrong's honor in Wapakoneta, OH, his birthplace. Everyone who drives down the interstate that spans from Toledo to Cincinnati can see it right along the side of the interstate. It is shaped like a moon, and holds momentos from the trip, and even some moon rocks. I've driven by many times, but have never stopped. Now, it is in danger of closing due to budgetary cuts at the state level. For some this is a shrine, even a temple.

Isn't it interesting how we honor our achievements, but not the one who made us. We worship the creation, and not the creator. Yet the creation- our earth, the moon, the whole universe- groans in anticipation of the Creator's return.

Romans 8
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

So, while acknowledging what was accomplished 40 years ago, we should be praising and worshipping He who made it all possible.

Luke 19
37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:
38"Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!"[b]
"Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

39Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" 40"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the rocks will cry out."

That probably means moon rocks too.