Things Above Thought
TAT 119 The Environment – Live It or Lose it
(Area #4 of testing our spiritual thinking.)
Yes Virginia the climate is changing, it has been changing since the flood of Genesis 6. This earth is not perfect and the Lord will not let it go on forever in its imperfect state:
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (2 Peter 3:10)
The environment is screaming at us!
For the LORD has a case against the inhabitants of the land, Because there is no faithfulness or kindness Or knowledge of God in the land. There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, And everyone who lives in it languishes Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky, And also the fish of the sea disappear. Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof; For your people are like those who contend with the priest. So you will stumble by day, And the prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I will destroy your mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (Hosea 4:1–6 underline added)
When there is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery that environment is screaming, there is no faithfulness or kindness or knowledge of God. When there is violence and bloodshed, that environment produces mourning, languishing people, and the animals on the land, in the sky, and in the sea DISAPPEAR.
The above verses tell us that the changing environment has nothing to do with politics or programs, it has everything to do with obedience to the LORD. So the next time we think that the primary activities in helping the environment are to vote a certain person or party into office, or to start an environmental protection program, we need to ask ourselves ………………
as spiritual beings are we thinking spiritually.
Bottom Line: Because of our lack of godly knowledge and a godly life, our world is being, and will be, destroyed; live It or lose it.
(For the short version of this TAT read, from top to bottom, the underlined portions.)