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Friday, June 19, 2020 - Join Pastor John for a Daily Devotional

June 19, 2020 by Rev. John Hartman

“Inner Space”

I came across the most charming video on YouTube. It’s about a dad who sent his son’s little toy train into space. This dad took his little boy’s favorite toy, – A Thomas The Tank Engine train, hooked it up to a weather balloon, and then attached a small camera and an old cell phone with a GPS to track it. And then he let it fly. Well, that little train floated all the way to the stratosphere, with the camera filming the entire flight. If you watch the video you can literally see the train set against the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth in the background! But, as the saying goes, “What goes up, must come down.” So when the weather balloon burst, and the train fell back to earth, the man and his son simply used the GPS to locate it, and they found it nestled safely in a cornfield 27 miles away.

Now, as cool as that was, even cooler was the little boy’s expression through the whole thing. He watched his dad fill up the weather balloon, and the boy waved goodbye to his beloved train as it floated away, and out of sight. The video ends with his unbridled joy at later finding it again after it fell into a field. Check out the link to the video, and it will bring a smile to your face. https://youtu.be/uAnyn4iV1sY

As I watched that video I couldn’t help but think, “That has got to be the coolest dad in the whole wide world!” In fact, I can almost hear my kids saying to me, “Hey Dad, how come you never sent any of our toys up into space?”

This Sunday is Father’s Day, a day as someone has suggested that “neckties glow, and Old Spice flows.” More importantly than sending stuff into outer space, is that we worship a God who came into our inner space. Jesus Christ shares that space with us day by day, hour by hour, and moment by moment. The Apostle Paul says in Ephesians (4:10), “He who descended is the same one who ascended higher than all the heavens, that he might fill the whole universe.” So wherever we go, and whatever we do, Jesus Christ is always with us. When we’re in the ICU waiting room at LGH. When stuck behind a horse and buggy in Quarryville. Whether we are in the classroom, the boardroom, or our living room, --Jesus is with us. Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there, and may God bless you!

Pastor John