ENVIRONMENT!

Genesis 2:15 AMPC

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it.

 

As we know, God is the creator of all nature. The human artist expresses their personality through creativity, but it started with God expressing His infinite glory and creativity through nature. God is the artist, architect, painter, and flower organizer of nature—without human qualification or consideration—but full of artistic and aesthetic beauty as described in Psalm 19:1 and 104:24. 

We are all created to share responsibility for the earth by being good stewards of the created environment because our environment is an expression of the person and nature of God and so should be treated with deep respect. 

So many today have abandoned the Creator and have begun to worship the creation, the environment, according to Romans 1:25. 

The first assignment God gave to Adam and all humanity was to tend and care for the Garden of Eden, the environment. According to Genesis 1:28, we all share the responsibility for the earth by being good stewards of the created environment. 

We have groups today fighting for all kinds of causes, i.e., water, animals, plants, and people fighting to preserve anything they deem necessary—not out of respect for God or because of any sense of Godly stewardship, but mostly out of the misguided sense of stopping the extinction of whatever they are fighting for. 

Yet, like the Israelites of old, we have defiled and desecrated the environment, as seen in Jeremiah 2:7. God gave us everything in creation to sustain us, but some are on the extreme of either not using them or misusing them. We have enough for both food and fuel. 

We are required by God in 1 Corinthians 4:2 to faithfully care for the environment because, according to John 1:3, all things were made through Christ, and without Him was not anything made that was made. 

The fullness of God’s creative power in and around the universe, and especially our environment, is seen in Psalm 104:25-31: Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small.  See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.  They all depend on you to give them food as they need it.  When you supply it, they gather it. You open your hand to feed them, and they are richly satisfied.  But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.  When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.  May the glory of the Lord continue forever! The Lord takes pleasure in all he has made!

If the Lord takes pleasure in all He made, we, His children, whom He made all things for, should likewise take pleasure in and care for all He made. 

We cannot worship nature, because the Creator God, not the creation—the environment and its contents—is holy. But we must show our love and respect for the Creator by caring for His creation as good stewards. 

We haven’t and cannot create anything. God, who made all things, is infinitely able to sustain all according to Luke 12:27-30. Some honour the environment more than human life, but to God all are important as seen in Isaiah 43:20-21. The weather, plants, and animals are all part of the environment God created on earth and are as much a part of God's creation as mankind itself. 

As believers and stewards of God’s creation, we must do what we can to ensure the care of the environment. Each of us is responsible for our contribution to the environment and therefore must ensure we act to protect, preserve, and respect it. 

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

- How do I personally show respect and care for God’s creation in my daily life? 

- In what ways do I struggle with prioritizing the environment as part of my spiritual stewardship? 

- How can I balance using natural resources responsibly without either abusing or neglecting them? 

- How does understanding God as the Creator change my attitude toward the environment and my role in protecting it? 

PRAYER: Father, help me to be a good steward of your creation, of the environment, to the glory of your name in Jesus’ name. Amen. 

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