You are a Mist

You are a mist

“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”  
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
          James 4:13,14
The above picture was taken in 1990 by the space probe voyager I. At the time it was four billion miles away from earth. The furthest any space craft today had gone.
It shows if you think about it the potential insignificance of mankind in the vastness of space. Carl Sagan wrote,
“Consider that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religious, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam....
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
From Carl Sagan,(1934-1996) Pale Blue Dot A Vision of the Human Future in Space.
Mr. Sagan couldn’t be more right. We are if you think about it are space dust and this world is all we have.
 Albert Einstein wrote, 
“Human beings vegetables  or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
That invisible player I believe is God. I believe Genesis 1:1 when it says,
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” 
                                                                                     Genesis 1:1
Abba Hillel Silver wrote,
“Faith in God is the strongest bulwark of a free society.  Human freedom began when men became conscious that over and above society and nature there is a God who created them...who fashioned them in His likeness, and that they are, therefore, possessed of intrinsic and independent significance and are endowed, as individuals, with original and irrevocable rights and authority.”
As I look around the world today I see mankind pulling away from God or perverting what he wants for mankind.
I see so called religious groups around the world killing supposedly in the name of God. These people are misguided and far from God.
I believe God loves all mankind irrespective of who they are, there way of life or their lifestyle.
I believe John when he wrote,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” 
                                                                                                   John 1:1-4,14.

I firmly believe that the God that created the universe and everything in it entered the history of man because he loved him so much.
That Jesus is God’s one and only Son and that in following his teachings we can make this world a better place.
Think about it.