Recently I have noticed many people lamenting change. I frequent a forum where people argue about environmental issues and there are those there that are upset about things like the decline of a particular species of animal or plant. Then there are those that are upset that the United States appears to be waning in its power and position in the world's societies. I just watched a few minutes of TV whilst I had some spaghetti and there was a story about how the Pope has a lot of work to do to repair the Catholic Church, and if he doesn't, it will likely not survive.
In all of this I am coming to realize that these are all just opportunities to know God and have a relationship with Him. We see everything through the prism of a static attitude. While we readily accept that ice ages and hot periods have come and gone many many times on this planet, we are all up in arms about the gloom and doom we think we see coming now. We also see that there have been thousands of species of plants and animals that are no longer on this earth yet now, all of a sudden, if one appears to be making its final gasps for existence, we scurry about trying feverishly to figure out a way in which we can stem the inevitable tide of extinction that faces everything.
We simply do not have that kind of power, and its time we understand that our job is to be a faithful and reasonable steward of what God has given us to use, yet not worry about it to the point where we attempt to take over His job for Him!
The sun sets on everything. All things have a life span except the One who made it all, and that One is Our Heavenly Father. May you be so fortunate to know Him and realize that amongst everything that has ever been or ever will be, you and I, His children, are the most precious creations He has ever made.
Peace,
Kevin
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People probably struggle so hard against a thing's extinction at the end, because they realize that the extinction process was probably sped up by their own actions. Perhaps by rushing around in a mad frenzy to try to stop global warming and save the earth, no one will remember all those years I drove my gas-guzzling SUV or my emissions-happy little car, used plastic bags or even paper (thank you, forests)...
Its the human condition, and you're right...only God can redeem and sanctify the things we try to do for Him and for the Earth.
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