Listen To The Signal From Space!

A farmer was working in his barn and amidst the hay, dropped his watch. He stomped all over the floor, and raked the hay, and poked into the dark corners with a flashlight to find the lost time-piece, but to no avail. Finally, he gave up his fruit-less search and went in for lunch. His small boy ran out to the barn, and a few minutes later came in with the watch. “How did you find it” his father asked? “I just lay down on the floor and kept very still, and soon I heard the watch ticking.”

There is a lesson to be learned from this simple story. Far too many of us waste our energies with a great deal of stewing and fretting and stomping through life. As we do so, we lose one of our most valuable possessions, namely fellowship and contact with our Creator.

There is a Divine resonance, a holy signal, a faint moving of the Spirit of God, that sets the pace and directs the inner heart to a life of significance, and an inner peace. This beat of the universe is ever present. This “Music of the Spheres” is always there. This still small voice is available. But we have so completely tuned it out by our loud and frantic strivings.

If we would make this day, or tomorrow, one that responds to the beat of the universe, instead of having it shake and tremble in discord, then we must learn to wait upon the Lord, to be still and know that God is God. There is a signal there. There is a still small voice waiting to give direction, give hope, and give peace, if we but listen for it. God has not left us desolate.

A German astronomer, Sebastian von Hoerner, says that there are at least ten civilized communities on planets within one thousand light years of the earth. He thinks that some of these people may be far more advanced than ourselves. He believes our best hope of avoiding disaster is to listen for some message from outer space which might save us and our civilization.

It is an interesting idea. Our amazingly sensitive listening devices have never picked up any such signal or voice. And even if we heard, would we obey?

Man does need a wisdom and a signal higher and wiser than his own. But we have such a message already. It comes to us from the eternal, sovereign God, the Creator of all the universes that may exist. The simple, universal code of love, forgiveness, mercy, and justice has been tapping out its message through the centuries. It has come down to us through the prophets and most perfectly through Jesus Christ.

When we become quiet enough to listen for this Voice, to discover the inner serenity and power of His Spirit, then life may be lived victoriously and meaningfully. The Voice out of Space has come. Will we be obedient to it, now that we know what it is?