The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
A minister from ministries-gone-by humorously posted on his Facebook wall this morning, “If the satellite falls on me today I want you all to know I love you!”
The space junk he was referring to is the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a dead, six and a half ton, school bus-size satellite that is hurtling toward us as I peck this! Scientists stated earlier this week that it would totally avoid North America, and now they’ve retracted their statement. So, good luck out there fellow earthlings!
For a few other grey hairs out there, this news story takes us back to 1979 when Skylab met its fiery demise over remote parts of South Africa and western Australia. I still remember the ‘Skylab is Falling’ t-shirts and well-publicized panic. My guess is that UARS will make an even more uneventful re-entry.
Let me ask you a question.
Do you know Chicken Little people?
Perhaps you’re a chronic ‘the sky is falling’ peeper.
Our culture, and sadly our church directories don’t lack ‘Negative Nellys’; those whose glasses are perpetually half empty and blinded to silver linings. Eyore Syndrome is pandemic!
Friends, of all the people on this garden planet, we as Christians should be the most optimistic! We have Jesus! Through His cross we get immeasurably more than we could ever dream of, ask for and certainly deserve. We are loved unconditionally be the greatest Father and most powerful monarch in existence. We are filled and sealed for salvation with and by His Spirit. We are viewed not by our filthiness and incompatibility, but now through the perfect righteousness of our Redeemer. Through an empty tomb, our archenemy named death is a defeated foe. Through His grace we are recipients of a living hope! All this - then Heaven.
So as beloved subjects of the kingdom, let’s lift our heads and eyes from the doom and gloom this world tries to sell us, and see the bigger exciting picture above us. Let’s look to the skies for Jesus! Anything else is a bunch of junk.
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