Man on The Moon

American astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon, and when he stepped on the lunar surface, he said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

On Christmas Eve, 1968, my late husband, Fred, and I sat with our children to view the most watched television program at the time. Three American astronauts, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman said, “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message. Then they read from the Bible, Genesis 1:1 - 10: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

Gene Cernan was the last man to set foot on the moon, as commander of Apollo 17, in December, 1972, the last lunar mission. His words may not become as famous as Neil Armstrong’s first sentence from the moon, or the Apollo 8 crew reading from God’s holy Word, but Cernan was profound when he said later, “There is too much purpose, too much logic, it was just too beautiful to happen by accident. There has to be somebody bigger than you and bigger than me. And I mean this in a spiritual sense, not in a religious sense, there has to be a creator of the universe who stands above religions that we ourselves create.”

Thank God for American heroes like these men, who are not afraid to publicly declare that God is real! Their messages from the Moon challenge us all. You and I have a divine responsibility, a holy calling to boldly proclaim that Jesus Christ, God’s One and only Son, is the only way to God. Don’t try to be politically correct while millions of souls are going into eternity without Christ. The One who made the Moon, the stars, and who made you and me, gave us a message greater than any message from the Moon, when Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature!”

Blessings,

Willie Jordan