Moon Walking Today
Dear Friends
It came as a huge shock to think it was 40 years ago that humans first landed on the moon. I was working in a hotel during my school holidays when the first grainy and blurred images appeared. Yet despite how antiquated its technology is today, the whole project still seems to be part of the future rather than the past. In other words, what we witnessed from back then is but a taster of what one day may be commonplace and unremarkable.
Well, many you hear say, ‘I don’t believe the Bible because it tells us of Christ’s miracles and I see no sign of them now’. But these wonders are just the same as those intrepid men in that flying machine. Since Jesus’ miracles are, in a way, part of the future. Because they give a glimpse of what the Kingdom will be like when it is here in full glory. In fact, Jesus’ miracle events are windows upon the perfect world that will one day be joyfully commonplace.
However, in the meantime we must not forget that real miracles are still being performed by Christ through his followers. The sort of marvellous wonders we too can all aspire to achieve with very little effort. For, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu reminded this year’s General Assembly – with a mere fraction of the West’s wealth, we could easily ensure no one on the planet goes to bed hungry or without a home and healthcare.
So if humankind, 40 years ago, can achieve the mammoth undertaking of landing on the moon, how can we not perform a lesser miracle today? And, in the process, our assured success will also give the sceptical and ourselves a glimpse of the Kingdom coming.
With every blessing this harvest time
Graham
