The Marshall Space Flight Center received this query from a young correspondent: "What would happen if you shot your rockets at an angel?" These are a child's words, but they touch a live issue. Many adults ask themselves, Does modern technology mean we have outgrown spiritual values?
No one in all history has lived more effectively than did Christ Jesus. The hunger of multitudes and the anger of the winds submitted to his control. He gave new orientation to character, healed stubborn physical conditions, revived the dead. Civil, military, and ecclesiastical authority combined to crucify and bury him, but he emerged from the tomb alive and active. He left no doubt where he placed his confidence. "It is the spirit that quickeneth," he said, "the flesh profiteth nothing" (John 6:63).
Jesus lived effectively because he remained unimpressed by any presentation of the physical senses, however persuasive or formidable. He knew that man and the universe, together with the laws that constitute, govern, and describe their nature, are in their eternal essence purely spiritual.
