LOVE THE EARTH

I’m still thinking concerning yesterday’s Journal entry on the Love the Animals. Not only are the animals our love focus, but the earth also our responsibility. From the beginning we are expected to love and care for the earth.

Genesis 1:1-31 tells of God creating everything and saying ‘it was good.’ In Genesis 2:15 we learn, “The Lord God took the human and settled him in the Garden of Eden to farm it and to take care of it.” These are moral and ethical responsibilities that the believer cannot ignore.

Henry Crow Dog (1899-1985) was a Rosebud Indian Reservation Sioux medicine man that resided on his land, Crow Dog’s Paradise. He kept the traditional ideas alive for his people concerning the earth: “The earth is a living thing. Mountains speak, trees sing, lakes can think, pebbles have a soul, rocks have power.”

Kind of sounds like Isaiah 55:12:
“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
Amen and Amen. ‘God so loved the world…’ extends beyond only human redemption.

“God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life. God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him isn’t judged; whoever doesn’t believe in him is already judged, because they don’t believe in the name of God’s only Son.” Jesus