Harming God’s green Earth

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God is in crisis. It is a crisis of belief in the human race. We are one of God’s greatest creations. Nature is also one of God’s greatest creations and it is necessary for our survival. However, the human race is destroying nature with ever-increasing speed. We are killing the planet that gives us life.

We are polluting the air with carbon dioxide. We are cutting down millions upon millions of trees, which give us the oxygen human beings need to breathe. We are degrading the oceans, our other critical source of oxygen. We are heating up the planet, imperiling our ability to grow the food that sustains our bodies.  

We are fouling the lands, rivers, lakes, ponds and oceans with chemicals, such as fertilizers and pesticides, foreign to nature, harming our ability to drink the water that helps keep us alive.    

By doing all these things, by casually ripping apart God’s creation for the sake of giant, soulless corporations and our relentless consumption of more and more material goods, we are severely testing God’s faith in us as stewards of the Earth. God grieves for the worldwide wreckage caused by our misuse of His gift to us.  

“Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night…” – Jeremiah 9:1  

If we destroy the natural environment God gave us, we will break our covenant with Him. You cannot simultaneously worship God and participate in the destruction of His creation.  

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation… But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed…Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.” (James 1:12 to James 1:15)  

This is the choice we face today to give in to sin by greedily gobbling up whatever we desire at the moment, or to choose the virtue of preserving life and not consuming for the sake of vain desires, far beyond our basic needs for food, shelter and clothing.  

climate change, God in Crisis, Mike Gold
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