A Speck of Dust
The late Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn the Voyager space craft
around as it left the solar system to take a picture of Earth and the solar system. They did and on February 14th 1990 Voyager 1 from a distance of 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) the above picture of was taken.
Sagan said of that dot,
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Carl Sagan.
Sagan is right that “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam” is the most important thing for all of us who live on it. If something happens to it we all die.
That mote of dust and all who live on it are also important to God who created it. According to the Bible,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17.
Two thing scientist and Christians agree on. This world will one day cease to be. That all those living today will not be alive two hundred years from now.
Scientist and Christians would also agree that at this time we know of no other worlds we can move to if this earth becomes uninhabitable. That even if we found one it would be too far a way and our technology is too primitive to reach it.
Thus we are left with this world knowing that we will not get off it alive.
That being said I as a believer in Christ Jesus firmly believe that we have a place to go. That life doesn’t end in death. That mankind is destined to live on throughout eternity.
I believe the words written by the apostle Paul who said,
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:6-8
The apostle Paul also noted,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8,9.
C. S. Lewis said,
“He (Jesus) died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” C.S. Lewis.
Jesus came into this world to point each individual to heaven. To eternal life with God. It costs us nothing. All He asks is that we have faith in Him.
The writer of Hebrews telling us,
The late Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn the Voyager space craft
Sagan said of that dot,
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Carl Sagan.
Sagan is right that “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam” is the most important thing for all of us who live on it. If something happens to it we all die.
That mote of dust and all who live on it are also important to God who created it. According to the Bible,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17.
Two thing scientist and Christians agree on. This world will one day cease to be. That all those living today will not be alive two hundred years from now.
Scientist and Christians would also agree that at this time we know of no other worlds we can move to if this earth becomes uninhabitable. That even if we found one it would be too far a way and our technology is too primitive to reach it.
Thus we are left with this world knowing that we will not get off it alive.
That being said I as a believer in Christ Jesus firmly believe that we have a place to go. That life doesn’t end in death. That mankind is destined to live on throughout eternity.
I believe the words written by the apostle Paul who said,
“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:6-8
The apostle Paul also noted,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8,9.
C. S. Lewis said,
“He (Jesus) died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” C.S. Lewis.
Jesus came into this world to point each individual to heaven. To eternal life with God. It costs us nothing. All He asks is that we have faith in Him.
The writer of Hebrews telling us,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for
and
certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
and
that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6.
Please think about it.
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