Will We Lose God In Outer Space?

Back in the year 1963, a space craft named "Faith 7" was sent out from the earth. A man named Gordon Cooper orbited the earth 22 times. In the book of Hebrews, we read "By faith, Abraham went out, not knowing where he was to go."(11:8) So also, Cooper went out, not knowing exactly what might happen, or entirely where he was going. But these early astronauts believed that God was there.

I know not why that capsule was called "Faith 7", but it was certainly appropriate. It was a venture in faith in spite of years of research and 18,000 persons to work the equipment. To sleep in that tiny capsule of steel with all of its intricate mechanisms while going over 17,000 m.p.h. took faith.

At about that same time, the Russian cosmonauts were asking, "Where is your God? We've never seen Him out there in space. We circled the globe again and again, and He wasn't out there!"

Thousands of years ago, the Psalmist said that you could not lose God. He wrote, "If I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." (Ps. 139:9,10) And he went on to say, "If I ascend to the heavens thou art there. If I make Sheol my bed, thou art there also." (Ps. 139:8)

Christianity has survived many unsettling philosophies in the past, but what bothers us so, is how quickly we limit God. When the Copernican theory was proposed, it was drowned in a barrage of criticism. "What do you mean that God did not make the earth the center of everything?" They not only laughed Copernicus to scorn, but they pronounced anathema upon anyone who believed him.

So also when Darwin's theories began to split the church, there were those who said, "What do you mean, saying that man has evolved?" And so today, there are people who can only conceive of God working in one way...their way! And they forget that God has all the options of the universe at His disposal, far beyond our ability to think or comprehend.

Is it possible that there is life on other planets in other solar systems? If so, what kind of life would it be? We don't know. But if God is our God, wouldn't He be their God too? Some people seem to have lost track of God on this Earth, but God is most certainly here, and in outer space too. It is possible that we have yet to see some of His marvelous miracles revealed elsewhere in His Universe too.