KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Junk
ORBITING OUR PLANET at speeds more than 4.5 miles per second is a growing collection of space junk...
Nuts, bolts, and other discarded debris from space flights are presenting a real hazard to future spacecraft. Their sheer speed makes the tiniest object strike with the impact of a bullet. During one of the shuttle missions, a speck of paint created a pit a quarter-inch wide in a window of the craft.
One study revealed that there are 110,000 objects larger than 1 centimeter in orbit. Their combined weight is 4 million pounds! To avoid a space junk disaster, the US Space Command monitors orbiting debris for NASA.
Sinful choices create their own kind of junk -- unintended consequences. When Achan stole and hid forbidden booty, it cost him his life (Josh. 7). After King David committed adultery and murder, family discord followed (2 Sam. 15 - 18).
Do you have any "junk" in your life? Sin's consequences have a way of accumulating. (Dennis Fisher)
KneEmail: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he how sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life" (Gal. 6:7).