Consider a pail blue dot from Voyager

Consider a pale blue dot from Voyager

“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....”
  Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997
I know many scientist, scholars, intellectuals and the average man on the street see this world as all we have.
They see the message of Christianity and say it can’t be. They see the vastness of the universe and look at a picture such as the above taken from Voyager four billion miles away from earth and say why would God come to such an insignificant “mote of dust.”
Paul writing to the Corinthians states,
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.  
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,  but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,  but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.” 
                                                                                                                    1 Corinthians 1:18-25.
We may not be able to see God but we can see what he has created. Scientist knew there were atoms before they could see them. They knew there were different kinds of gasses before they could determine what they were. Planets around other stars before they could see them.
In the same way we can see God.
Psalm 19:1 states,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” 
                                                                                                                                 Psalm 19:1
Take a look at that pale blue dot. It is at the perfect distance from the sun for life to exist. The perfect location in space for mankind to live and if provides everything man needs.
True mankind has messed it up. That’s because I believe man has fallen as the bible states, short of what God want’s him to be.
Even as I write this there is a conference at the United Nations on climate change. People around the world are protesting to try and get governments to cut back on pollution.
John B Harrington in his book "Essentials in Christian Faith" published in 1958, notes something that could have been written yesterday.
It opens with this quote from Paul Gallico in Esquire Magazine in 1948:
"A writer in a popular magazine has written the following words; 'We are all, if you will pardon the expression, Headed for Hell in a handbarrow. If, ever the people of the world stood in need of a spiritual revival, it is now. We are beginning to poison the face of the earth with our miserable presence. The brakes are off. The cart of the world is sliding down the way greased with hatred, ambition, lies, self-seeking and avarice toward the pit.’"
   Harrington notes that Gallico makes no pretense of being "a religious man" noting that "...for him it is precisely religion in its organized forms which has in part caused the situation he deplores. He is careful to state that it is not "religion" for which he is looking. For in his opinion, religion throughout the history of our culture has advanced its control over human beings by the investment of bigotry and persecution. 
Yet, out of despair over the current human situation he says; ‘The voice for which my heavy spirit is yearning must reach us all... For if it is not heard, we are lost. Something beyond our material enrichment and lust for power and position, some rewards founded on good will, selflessness, and the innate dignity of the human spirit...honour, humility, decency courage."
Another Paul writing to a member of the first century church wrote the following,
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God"                                                                                                                                                  2 Timothy 3:1-4.
To my mind, mankind is sliding to a lake that is filled with brimstone and the only way to stop ones slide is to take the hand of Jesus and accept the salvation only he can offer.
Think about it.