The Signal That Never Stopped

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 into the unknown. Nearly fifty years later, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena still send commands to that small craft — now over fifteen billion miles from Earth. Every day, they listen for its faint signal. When its memory glitched in 2024, a team spent months devising a workaround, refusing to abandon a probe they had sent on its way decades ago.

NASA did not just launch Voyager and forget it. They equipped it with instruments for every encounter it would face — cameras for Jupiter's storms, spectrometers for Saturn's rings, a golden record carrying the sounds of Earth. And they committed to sustaining contact for as long as the mission endured.

Paul opens his letter to the Corinthians with this same breathtaking assurance. The God who called you into fellowship with His Son has enriched you with every gift you need — speech, knowledge, spiritual power. You are not lacking anything. And here is the promise that should steady every anxious heart: He will sustain you to the end, blameless on the day of Christ's return.

The engineers in Pasadena are faithful to a machine they built with human hands. How much more is the Almighty faithful to the people He has called by name? God does not launch us into the unknown and lose interest. He is faithful. The signal never stops.