Last week a headline appeared on the Drudge Report. It read, “ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND Elon Musk to reveal next step in mission to build city on Mars.”
Upon clicking on the link to the article it said in part, “Billionaire's SpaceX firm prepares for announcement about plans to turn humanity into a 'multiplanetary' species. Elon Musk is preparing to reveal further details of his hugely ambitious plan to build a city on the surface of Mars.
“Musk has previously claimed Mars is “a fixer-upper of a planet” and even suggested dropping nuclear bombs on its surface to heat up the atmosphere and make it suitable for human colonization.”
My thought about this grand plan for colonizing Mars is, “Why are we making plans to go to another planet when we have not taken care of planet Earth? Are we going to do any better in outer space?”
Elon Musk’s plan makes me think of the Eagles song, “The Last Resort” by Glenn Frey and Don Henley. Quoting the last stanza they said, “And you can see them there on Sunday morning/Stand up and sing about what it's like up there/They called it paradise, I don't know why/You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye”.
I don’t believe that Mars is paradise, but it is unexplored territory. If we were able to reach and colonize the planet will the outcome be any different than the exploration and colonization of the earth? Sadly, the outcome will be no different because man’s whole approach to life is wrong.
Our world is governed primarily by self and get. This approach is why we have the horrible problems that we find on earth. The problems are not getting better with time. Truly, until we find the solution to the problems that plague this world space exploration will result in the same conditions on earth just spread farther out into the universe.
God lays out the fundamental approach that is crucial to any project. In Psalms 127:1 we are told, “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. . . .” This verse is crucial to all projects on earth or in the heavens above. If God is at the center of building any project, then that project will prosper. But when God is left out, no project or plan of man can reach its full potential.
Truly, if Elon Musk is able to create a colony on Mars, as the Eagles said, you can “kiss it goodbye.”
Thankfully, as God’s people, God has come into our lives and He is building “houses” in each of our lives that will last forever.
Have a most pleasant Sabbath and Feast of Trumpets,
Gary Smith
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