Space…the final frontier…climb aboard the Starship Enterprise where every episode is an adventure to new planets, new life forms, new alliances, new struggles, new victories, new insights…new…new…

It may just be me, but how is it that something “new” is associated with that which is “final”? Would it not make more sense if “final” was related to “last”? Of course, there is that word, “frontier”; but even that word has to do with the extreme limits of such things as achievement, understanding, or that which has been settled. How is it that the extreme limits of one’s understanding could be a sign that something new was about to happen?

Perhaps it has to do with the word, “space.” Some 40 years ago, Sir Fred Hoyle wrote this: “Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” While it is slightly above my pay grade to address the likelihood of driving a car straight upwards for an hour, what I do believe is that space isn’t remote at all, particularly if you consider the season we just celebrated..And the Word was made flesh, and made his dwelling among us.

The real question we might need to ask ourselves is, what ‘space’ am I willing to seek in finding God’s purpose for me in 2020? Will it be the space of some inner truth we have yet to settle? The space for God to do a new work in our lives? Space for new relationships? Space in our own hearts for Jesus to come and make his dwelling? Any of those spaces can be a final frontier – one where every episode is an adventure in new relationships, new struggles, new victories, new insights. May the space we make in 2020 take us to new frontiers in our relationship with God and with others.