Recently NASA has been in the news. Apparently our President is shutting down any space explorations. In fact, if we want to continue to be involved with the International Space Station, we now have no way of getting up there...we would have to hitch a ride from the Russians!

This is a quote from CHARLES BOLDEN, NASA ADMINISTRATOR: Perhaps foremost, he (Obama) wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering.

Excuse me???? I don't want to get political on this blog, but something is REALLY wrong with this picture!!!!

Well, I'll just leave that little hot button alone and write something more edifying about "nasa" that I learned in a devotional by Dale Vander Veen. He was writing about how difficult it was to learn Hebrew while he was at Calvin Seminary. He had to learn Greek as well, but that wasn't as difficult. The reason Greek was easier for him to master was because many English words have Greek origins. For example "hardia" is Greek for our word "heart". They sort of sound similar.

While Hebrew was harder to learn, every once and a while a word would be easier to remember and learn. One such word was the word "nasa". In Hebrew it means "to lift, to carry or bear"....sort of like the rockets from NASA "lift" off. This word is used by David in Psalm 32:1 where David writes, "Blessed are those whose transgressions are (nasaed) forgiven."

For the believer, these sins have been "carried" or "lifted" by Jesus. And he carried them as far as "the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12). Those sins aren't floating around in outer space. They aren't stashed up on Jupiter or Neptune. Those sins are gone. Vaporized. Vanished.

Only the Son of God could "nasa" our sins and forget them. Now that's a "nasa" our Muslims friends may like to find out about.........just a thought.