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| First Earthrise sighting, Apollo 11 Mission |
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. In a recent article, Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon recently commented on the significance of the historic event;
"The pictures we and our fellow lunar astronauts took of the moon and the Earth changed forever our concept of our place in the universe. We saw the Earth as alone, fragile and in need of protecting and preserving. Those images helped give birth to the environmental movement."
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| Lunar Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. |
Wouldn't it have been great if that historic moment had instead given birth to a widespread movement of man towards God? If we were as 'enlightened' as we think we are in our free-thinking society then I am certain we would have. Alas, Adam's posterity is as spiritually blind as ever. Only a move of God could give birth to such a thing.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork. (Psalms 19:1)
The heavens are provided by God as a visual aid to help us apprehend His glory. That is one place to start in apprehending the majesty of an infinite God.
Issac Watts said the following in his treatise on Logic,
"If finite beings are not adequately known by us, much less the things infinite: for it is of the nature of a finite mind not to be able to comprehend what is infinite"
Watts also points out that while we cannot comprehend God in the sense that we can't wrap our minds around Him comprehensively, we can apprehend what truth is revealed about God in scripture. So we should not say that God is an ineffable mystery, that is, He is too mysterious to be expressed or described in words. (oddly enough, the word "ineffable" is a word used to describe things which can't be described with words) While as great and mysterious the Godhead is, we can and do describe God with words, and this is okay, because He describes Himself in great detail with words in His word.
Particularly we know God best as seen in the incarnation and exaltation of Jesus, He is the best visual representation of God, He is God.
I do wonder sometimes if the human mind in it's current state of frailty and weakness prefers to believe in what it can comprehend. Buzz Aldrin was right. "Earth worship" has become increasingly popular since people first saw in full color how small the earth really is. Suddenly the earth was larger than just the neighborhood, city, state or country one was living in, it was a planet in its entirety. It could be comprehended as a whole, yet today we are still having a hard time comprehending all its parts.
And here's the shocker, even if we could, we could never concentrate on all the parts comprehensively in any one given moment of thought. Amazingly, God can.
Space exploration comes up from time to time in conversations. So I am resolved by God's grace to use the opportunity to demonstrate that the wonders of creation (such as outer space) serve to point us to the Creator.
"For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." Romans 1:20 ESV
Soli Deo Gloria
Josh
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