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“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.” Psalm 8:1 (NIV)

After a six-month 268 million mile voyage, the 820-pound Deep Impact spacecraft collided with a comet named Tempel-1 at the speed of 24,000 M.P.H. as planned. It appears that this year the 4th of July fireworks was not limited to the Earth alone. Although the incoming data is expected to take months to analyze, the latest successful NASA mission has left its mark not only on a comet half the size of Manhattan, but also on more than 250 scientists, engineers, managers, and educators.

The latest $333 million mission funded by NASA is designed to probe beneath the surface of a comet and discover the secrets of its interior. Discovered in 1867, the comet Tempel-1 has been known to orbit the Sun every 5.5 years. Believing that comets are time capsules that hold clues about the solar system’s birth, NASA has undertaken this six-year project.

It has been said, “In space exploration, the possibilities for discovery are without limits. Even with the vast amount of knowledge gained since exploration of our solar system began, there are still more questions than answers.” So actually very little is known about comets and even less is known about their cores. Mankind's limited knowledge about God’s Creation is humbling, yet the hunger to know about our origin has motivated millions of dollars to be spent on the space program.

What drives Man to so strongly pursue this knowledge of his origins? Perhaps it is a reflection of a greater need. The Bible says, there is also within every one of us a deep hunger to know the Creator, but as Solomon writes, “God has set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” [Eccl 3:11]

Thankfully, although God is unfathomable, He has made himself known to us. The writer of Hebrews says, “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets many times and in many different ways. But now in these last days God has spoken to us through his Son. God has chosen his Son to own all things, and through him he made the world. The Son reflects the glory of God and shows exactly what God is like.” [1:1-3, NCV]

This is good news, for not only can we know God our Creator, but we can have a personal relationship with Him when we ask & receive Him into our lives. Moreover, as it says in John 1:12-13 (NCV), we become His children, reborn into a new life --“But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God. They did not become his children in any human way—by any human parents or human desire. They were born of God.”

And best of all, unlike the man’s space project Deep Impact which cost $333 million dollars, our quest to know God is Free, because God has paid it all. We only need to “receive” this generous gift from God and “believe.”

How about you? Do you want to know your Creator? If you’ve not done so already, why not ask Him to come into your life today? Let God make the “Deep Impact” on your life!

— Pastor Jim Sakurai

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