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I have a friend that surprised me some time ago when we were out at a store. She had picked up a purse she liked the look of, and after checking the tags, gave a disgruntled face and lost interest in it. My immediate assumption was that it was too expensive, so I took a look, and found out it was quite reasonably priced. Puzzled, I asked her what she suddenly disliked about it, and she responded "I just don't support going green. When God wants the world to end, it will."
Why do we create things? Is it to lengthen our lives on earth by giving us more years to live? Is it to speed up the time we have by giving multiple levels of constant entertainment? Here was someone that believed in global warming, but also believed that it was/is God's plan to have it. Telling someone that they are wrong is assuming that I know God's plan, so there is no way that I can say things for sure, but I feel that we are called to be stewards of God's land.
One of the most ingenious parts of humans that God created was the ability to create things. He is the Creator, and this is one way that he made us in his image. Based on the reading, I would deduce that Marshall would also believe the same statement. "We have to make real decisions about how we can put flesh on what God has shown us to be the path of peace, hope, steward- ship, and justice. God. gives us real responsibility. Adam named the animals, and God accepted the names that Adam gave." We are responsible for things on earth. Why God gave us this responsibility to a race filled with sin is beyond me, but the fact is that we have it.
Power over other things God has created on earth is a gift and an opportunity. Learning to make wise and conscious decisions about what we are doing, and how those decisions will affect the world God has given us is our responsibility as stewards. Like the servants who are given money by the master, God wills us to multiply the gifts he has given us, not let them sit idle and gain nothing.
2 comments:
You make a good point when you say that "we are responsible for things on earth". So often I get caught up in things 'of the world' that I forget about the world itself. That doesn't mean we HAVE to become "tree huggers" or vegetarians but God does call us to look after His creation. The creation that someday will be made perfect again.
exactly, I feel as if I didn't get my point across well when I typed it out, but you got it perfectly Gina. I just feel the responsibility that God gave humans is something we should both be happy about, and also take on as a challenge of our abilities.
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