The Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Titov was the second human to orbit the earth. After his return from his flight, he said these words: “Some people say there is a God out there—but in my travel around the earth all day long, I looked around and didn’t see Him—I saw no God or angels. The rocket was made by our own people. I don’t believe in God. I believe in man, in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.”
Titov did not see because he did not believe.
The astronauts of Apollo 8 had a mission to go to the moon and orbit it ten times and then return to earth. They were able to get great photographs of the moon, but the most remarkable picture they saw was the distant earth floating in a sea of darkness.
The astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were awestruck. On Christmas Eve 1968, they sent back a message to earth: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth—-” reading from Genesis 1:1-10.
Their choice of reading was not haphazard, and the creation was not haphazard or spontaneous. They did not see man and his greatness, they SAW GOD and His mighty wonders!
“Jesus said, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?‘…….”. John 11:40.
They astronauts on Apollo 8 saw because they first believed.
Have a blessed day!
In Christian love,
Diane