Victor Glover, who is an astronaut, is going for a six-month trip in outer space. He says his Christian faith will help him through this assignment.
Glover recently explained his faith, the key role it plays in his family and how he is planning to continue to develop his spirituality whiles going to space.
Last Sunday, Glover and three other astronauts left the Kennedy Space Center to take part in a science project at the International Space Station.
During an with the Christian Chronicle, Glover explained the unique experience he’s had since being selected as an astronaut for NASAÂ and why God will always be an important part of his life.
“This has been a really interesting journey, the seven years I’ve been at NASA, and it’s been a real exercise personally and professionally, but also spiritually,” he explained. “Understanding the role of God in my life and God’s authority and my submission to that and the love, support, and encouragement that that can create in my life.”
“I want to use the abilities that God has given me to do my job well and support my crewmates and mission and NASA,” Glover added. “That’s really the thing I think the most about.”
“I have a job to do. Sometimes that gets lost in the emotion of it. I’m looking forward to looking out the window and taking the pictures and taking in the moment.”
Although he will be on his way to space, Glover plans to not give up on his routines.
“God assigned me a few really important things: this life, this vessel, but also my wife and that relationship, the two of us becoming one and then the family that we’ve grown with our four daughters.”
“We all need to lean on God but we also need to lean on each other and be encouraging to one another,” Glover said as a reaction to what is happening in America.
Glover mentioned that in times like these, people need to go to God for answers.
“There are so many really simple lessons from the Bible. To love God first and foremost, to love yourself – have a healthy love of yourself and then to love your brother as yourself. If all of us are doing that, so many of these other issues that we allow to divide us stop becoming barriers to relationships,” he concluded.
Source: CBN News