Hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, earthquakes and
tornados, mountains sides ablaze, wars and terrorism—it is not God’s wrath but
man’s refusal to heed God’s precepts that creates this chaos
. . . nature exists in a delicate balance, human actions have unbalanced that balance and God mourns the destruction. The saving words are “Thy will be done” and they have been ignored.
. . . nature exists in a delicate balance, human actions have unbalanced that balance and God mourns the destruction. The saving words are “Thy will be done” and they have been ignored.
The voice of the Lord is in nature and nature howls from the
pain man has inflicted upon her. Nature
is warning us, calling us to awaken. In
the earliest pages of the Bible God says, “I lay before you life and death,
choose life”. We make the ‘for life
choice’ by following The Way of Jesus which is love and forgiveness—but instead we have ignored that imperative and chosen greed and selfishness . . . and the earth
groans as man’s choices unbalance the balance, bringing destruction.
We need God in our life, our world and our consciousness.
Once again I invoke the contemporary version of Psalm 29:
We have not kept your precepts,
Lord.
We have not shepherded the earth by
your formulation,
We have plundered for private gain
and
trampled the lowly to amass profits.
Ascribe to the Lord, O world
leaders,
ascribe
to the Lord glory and strength.
Ascribe to the Lord the reverence
due his name
and
take heed of the splendor of his holiness.
The voice of the LORD is heard in
Nature,
the
God of glory thunders.
The Lord gives us warning as we
despoil the earth;
the
voice of the Lord breaks the cedars
and
howls the winds.
The voice of the Lord shakes the
mountains
and
strikes with flashes of lightening.
The voice of the Lord twists the
oaks
and
strips forests bare.
Look, listen and know!
The Lord sits enthroned over the
waters and land,
The Lord reigns King forever.
The Lord gives warning to his people!
Heed his precepts and principles
lest
man’s choices bring destruction
to this wondrous earth and all its inhabitants!
to this wondrous earth and all its inhabitants!
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