Our Enterprise Pt. 1

By David Berg May 04, 2015

The first Star Trek movie ever filmed was a sort of parable in which the good ship Enterprise and its good Captain Kirk and crew are sent on a mission to find out whether an alien spaceship that’s approaching earth is friendly or hostile, and to determine what to do about it. They discover that it’s a very powerful, sophisticated spaceship which was accidentally created by the Voyager 6 space probe sent out from earth to collect information. Then it became a sort of sentient being that was becoming curious as to why it had been created, what it was, and who created it, and it wanted to find its creator. So it was headed back to earth to find its creator.

The space probe created by NASA had gone out into space and learned so much that it was able to become this tremendous spaceship, which was now headed back to earth because it wanted to get acquainted with its creator. It wanted to find out why it had been created and get some answers. This is the general gist of the story.

The implied meaning to this movie is that man has been created, placed here on earth by his Creator. And he’s been formed with a natural inborn desire to find and know his Creator and to be joined to Him, which we know is God. And this is, of course, applicable to us; that’s why God made us. “He has also set eternity in the human heart.”1

The human body in a sense is like a machine, but we’re much more complicated than any machines. We are self-reproducing machines, and we not only have knowledge and logic and the ability to reason, but also emotions and feelings, the greatest of which is love, that lift us far above any machine, animal, or other created thing, although even animals can understand love. Science has found that even plants can understand love. It seems as if all living things are sensitive to love and human emotion. And of course God has put in man’s heart the eternal desire to find and know and love God, his Creator.

Man is always searching for God, and God is searching for man. But man has to find God through the ways God has provided or he’s not going to find Him. And the way that we find the Lord is through His Spirit, which is in a sense His communicator. God is available to man, and God wants man to find Him and know Him, but he has to be willing to turn on his receiver, and desire God and be hungry for God and be willing to listen to God’s communications; most of all, God’s Word. God’s primary way of communicating with man is through His Word. God’s principal means of communicating to man what He is like is Jesus.

God has made a way for man to know his Creator, and He has made that the only way—“the way, the truth, and the life”—and there’s no other mediator or communicator except the man Christ Jesus.2 God has ordained it that if you want to know God, you have to go through Jesus. You have to find Christ. His communication is Jesus, and you have to find God that way. There’s no other way to find God because there is no other God and no other representation or living Word of God except Jesus.

Anyone who truly wants to find the Lord will find Him; God has promised that. Jesus Himself said that He fills the hungry heart, and “If you seek Me, you’ll find Me.”3 If any person really seeks to find the Lord and communicate with Him, the Lord will see to it that he finds Him somehow. There are many salvation testimonies of people who were out trying to find God and trying to seek a reason for their existence, a meaning to their life. “What’s it all about? Who am I? What am I here for?” If they seek Him, they’ll find Him. “That they may know Me, whom to know is life eternal.”4

1 Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV.
2 John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5.
3 Matthew 5:6, 7:7; Jeremiah 29:13.
4 John 17:3.






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