Prince Philip’s character in Netflix’s The Crown (Season 3, Episode 7, “Moondust”) said this about his disappointment in what they found when American astronauts landed on the moon in 1968:
“The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon and finding nothing but haunting desolation, ghostly silence, gloom. That is what faithlessness is. As opposed to finding wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God’s design and purpose.”
Are We Alone?
The universe contains trillions of galaxies, each with billions of stars—more than we could count in a thousand lifetimes. Worlds beyond worlds are scattered across an ocean of space so vast it makes Earth seem like a speck of dust.
You’d think someone else would be out there by now. But so far, the cosmos has been… quiet.
No alien signals. No visitors. No confirmed microbes on Mars or the moons of Jupiter. Just an overwhelming stillness.
So no, I don’t believe in little green men or flying saucers zipping around our skies. I believe we are the only beings God created in His image—and that He made the Earth and the universe for us to share eternal life with Him.
God’s Focus Is On Us. On You.
What if life on this planet is incredibly special and rare—not because the universe is empty, but because we are the characters in God’s story?
What if Earth is not one of many planets where living, thinking beings exist, but the only place in His vast creation where God chose to create His family?
A vast universe does not make us insignificant. It makes God’s focus on us even more astonishing.
And that makes you a very, very special and important person in the universe. More on that coming up.
Child of God, husband, father, grandfather, rabblerouser, songwriter, pot stirrer, waiting for the King.