The Last Supper on the Moon: NASA's 1969 Lunar Voyage, Jesus Christ’s Bloody Death, and the Fantastic Quest to Conquer Inner Space

by Levi Lusko

He has a plan for you to shine in the midst of your struggles. Not someday when you sort out all your issues, or when you have a better job, or are out of school. Right now, in the middle of the suffocating smallness of your situation—he wants you to shine.

The pockmarks and wounds you carry around inside and show to no one are not only where the most damage has happened; they are where your greatest potential strengths lie. As they say, the cracks are what let the light in.

The obstacle to liking who you are and being comfortable with yourself is comparison.

Space medicine contributed4 to radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer; foldable walkers (constructed from lightweight metal developed by NASA); personal alert systems (devices worn by individuals who might require immediate emergency medicine or safety assistance); CAT and MRI scans (devices used by hospitals to look inside the human body, first developed by NASA to take better pictures of the moon); muscle-stimulant devices (to prevent muscle atrophy in paralyzed patients); advanced types of kidney dialysis machines . . . the implantable heart defibrillator, a tool to constantly monitor heartbeats, was developed by NASA and could deliver a shock to restore heartbeat regularity. . . . Even simple everyday health-related objects (such as the special foam used for cushioning astronauts during liftoff, which was starting to be used in pillows and mattresses at hospitals to help prevent ulcers, relieve pressure, and ward off insomnia) . . .

Jesus didn’t come to improve your life but to save your soul. Fortunately, life is much better with a saved soul. If you let him make you holy, you will watch as, day by day, he makes you happier.

Here’s the takeaway: when you are doing things for God but not spending time with God, you begin to act like you are God.

If you live by the approval of others, you will die by it.

giving, not keeping, is the key to receiving.

Jesus quoted the Psalms more often than any other book in the Old Testament, which tells me that praise is powerful.

G. K. Chesterton once said, “There is no such thing19 on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

Prayer taps you into power that can calm you in the midst of the craziness of life and help you overcome your ability to self-sabotage.

Today, Christ has set before you doors of opportunity. No one can close them, but you can also choose to not walk through them. You are not left on your own to navigate them by yourself as in the secular Stoicism that Marcus Aurelius pointed to. As you overcome yourself and tune in to heaven’s frequency, you have the wind of the Holy Spirit at your back!

Martyn Lloyd-Jones put it this way17: Repentance means that you realize that you are a guilty, vile sinner in the presence of God, that you deserve the wrath and punishment of God, that you are hell-bound. It means that you begin to realize that this thing called sin is in you, that you long to get rid of it, and that you turn your back on it in every shape and form. You renounce the world whatever the cost, the world in its mind and outlook as well as its practice, and you deny yourself, and take up the cross and go after Christ. That is repentance.