When I was in 2nd grade I was Vice-President of the Lost in Space Club. The group boasted four members and it was the first and last time I ever held public office.
For those of you not old enough to remember Lost in Space, it was a 60s iconic television show about a space traveling family named the Robinsons. Through a series of misadventures including an unexpected stowaway, the Robinsons were tragically thrown off their trajectory for Alpha Centauri and hopelessly lost in space — hence the title of the show.
The show ran for several years and it wasn’t just the perils facing the Robinsons on uncharted planets, interplanetary aliens or failed attempts to return to planet Earth that kept us hooked week after week. No, it was the gadgets and futuristic technology that kept my generation tuning in.
Even though the show was produced in the 1960s, the fictional family did their space travelling in the future; 1997 to be exact. The Robinsons had robots and computers long before the invention of iPhones and Roomba vacuums.
At seven years old it was easy to let my imagination get caught up in science fiction and imagine a day when space travel and personal jet packs would be the norm. Here it is 11 years into the 21st century and we still don’t have flying cars or jet packs! I’m a little disappointed this isn’t the future Lost in Space promised us.
Even with the technological advancements our society has made, no one can predict with absolute precision what the future will hold for us 50 years from now.
Hollywood entertains and frightens us with what the future might hold based on very real scientific discoveries. CNN transmits the horrors of widespread evil right into our living rooms in such graphic detail it terrifies us to our very core causing many to believe we are in fact living in the end times.
If we are not grounded in the Word of God, it would be very easy to let the enemy shroud us in a cloud of gloom and doom, afraid to go anywhere for fear the end of all mankind is imminent.
Second Timothy 3:1 tells us there will be terrible times in the last days. Does that mean we should barricade ourselves at home waiting for the second coming of Christ? Hardly!
Because theologians, scientists or Hollywood are unable to predict when Christ will return for us, we should live life as usual but always ready for the trumpet blow calling us home. In Matthew 24:40 God tells us when the time comes one will be working in the field and one taken.
Hollywood theatrics can’t change the fact that God is the only one who gets a say when the last days will arrive. As believers our call is to serve Christ, share the gospel and do our best to reach the unsaved.
Because Christ doesn’t want anyone to perish, 30 years from now we may actually be able to witness to the lost from our flying cars or jetpacks. As long as we take Jesus along for the ride it won’t matter if we’re Lost in Space just so long as we’re not spiritually lost. Don’t put your hope in science or Hollywood. Put your hope in Jesus!
Blessings,
Kathy
I came across your website and have been enjoying the words that are shared by the ladies of your women’s ministry. Thank you for listening to God’s voice as you share with us listeners great truths for our edification.