Futile Escape to Mars

The marvel of Mars.  

It is the rust-hued plains and Olympus Mons’s towering caldera, imagining what it would be like to escape Earth’s safe gravity and find refuge among the red sands. Yet even at its closest approach approximately 35 million miles from home—that distant world remains hung to the same cosmic canvas governed by the Creator’s hand.

Any illusion of refuge beyond our planet or even is some other plain is shattered in Psalm 139.

 

Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 

9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

The psalmist's declares "Even there shall thy hand lead me" that the idea of escaping to a remote location is futile. A person could travel to the "uttermost parts of the sea," which to an ancient person was an unimaginable distance, and still, God would be there. 

Perspective From Science

In astronomical terms, there is no “uttermost part” of space accessible to you that lies outside His dominion—no Lagrange point, no event horizon, no heliopause, no Martian valley.

Fleeing to Mars cannot remove you from God’s presence. The One who charts the elliptical paths of planets also knows our every intention and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).