I say that not because I’m a fan of the Russian space program, but because I remember the day well, and since I was in the space operations business in the Air Force, tracking Sputnik’s successors, it’s a day we celebrate in our family!

Last year’s Sputnik Day blog featured sanitation technology sponsored by Bill Gates. This year we need to pray for a different kind of technology: the scientists who are developing the COVID-19 vaccine. Interestingly, Bill and Melinda Gates have an interest in that too.

I applaud the efforts of everyone, but, as always, our real help comes from God who may work through anyone he chooses.

He said, “If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.” (Exodus 15.26, NIV)

Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. (Psalm 91.3, NIV)