Neil Armstrong produced his initial moon stroll on July 20, 1969, two months prior to I entered school. I keep in mind that several Americans had been euphoric about this accomplishment. There had been songs written, celebrations, ticker tape parades, and coins depicting an eagle landing on the moon.

Yet what really stands out in my memory was a poster on a classmate’s dorm-space wall. It looked like the front page of a newspaper’s unique edition. The large photo dominating the upper fifty percent of the page showed Armstrong in his area fit, visor down, planting the U.S. flag into lunar soil. The banner headline screamed, “So what?”

I believe the &ampquotSo what?” poster was questioning whether the billions poured into the area system had been justifiable whilst people in the U.S. and about the world had been nonetheless struggling from hunger, poverty, illiteracy, and poor well being treatment. Stewardship was the issue the poster was raising.

Most would concur the area system has been nicely really worth its cost. The several spin-offs are not the only benefit. This great achievement permanently transformed our assumptions of what is possible.

We ought to ask ourselves, “So what?” at the extremely second we accomplish something we are tempted to label “great.” We ought to do this so habitually that we learn to ask it at the beginning of a undertaking, not just at its finish. Is this factor into which I am pouring so a lot of my time, cash, and power really really worth it all? Will it alter the world for the a lot much better? Will it alter me?

The Master asked, “So what?” as soon as much more and as soon as much more. He needed his disciples to count the price, to examine the fruit, to appear down the broad road and up the narrow road. Numerous of His parables have to do with Judgment Day. The fire of judgment will burn up all the unworthy pursuits and the fly-by-evening goals. What survives will be only what can encounter such a probing query with powerful self-confidence.

Steve Singleton has written and edited a quantity of publications and a number of articles on topics of curiosity to Bible students. He has taught Greek, Bible, and religious study applications Bible school, university, and grownup ing applications. He has taught seminars and workshops in 11 states and the Caribbean.

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