CAREKEEPERS FOREVER
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Matt. 5:5, R.S.V.
I like being at home. I also love people and fellowshipping with them. If I had to choose between going to a party and staying home...well, I'd have to choose both: I'd have the party at my house!
There's nothing wrong with loving to be at home. In fact, there is everything right about it. And there is everything right about our ties to this earth, in the sense that it is our home. Indeed, it is the home that God Himself chose for us in the beginning.
We often talk about"going to heaven." But God knows that we'd probably enjoy the "party" more if we ended up at our house. Thus, when the great controversy between good and evil is finally over, God plans that we will come home.
Right now our little planet is undergoing terrible stress. Ecologists decry rapid erosion of the earth's resources. Cartoonists depict mankind falling off its overcrowded surface. We are in trouble! All manner of cruelty infests society. Why? To say, "because of sin," is not an incorrect answer, but is it a sufficient one? Sin is a word that has become almost a cliche in modern society.
I believe that God wants us to be more integrated in our thinking about such problems. This is the age of advanced technology. Computers are taken for granted, and the silicon chip may someday make libraries a thing of the past. Along with these unparalleled achievements, people have tremendous access to information of every dimension. They expect answers consistent with such availability. Abstract religious words will not satisfy their desire to understand the world's crisis.
Our world is in chaos because those that were given charge over it have become chaotic. In the beginning, man reflected the image of his Creator and was nurturing to his earth-home, developing and replenishing it. Separation from God brought separation from God's methods, and man has hurt the earth ever since.
It will be a wonderful happy time when our friendship with God is fully restored. Once again we will be like Him who is "meek and lowly in heart" (Matt. 11:29). We too will be gentle and ministering. God will rejoice with us the day we can come home again to our renewed world. He'll trust us once again with its care, because we will have learned to trust and appreciate His way of government.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Matt. 5:5, R.S.V.
I like being at home. I also love people and fellowshipping with them. If I had to choose between going to a party and staying home...well, I'd have to choose both: I'd have the party at my house!
There's nothing wrong with loving to be at home. In fact, there is everything right about it. And there is everything right about our ties to this earth, in the sense that it is our home. Indeed, it is the home that God Himself chose for us in the beginning.
We often talk about"going to heaven." But God knows that we'd probably enjoy the "party" more if we ended up at our house. Thus, when the great controversy between good and evil is finally over, God plans that we will come home.
Right now our little planet is undergoing terrible stress. Ecologists decry rapid erosion of the earth's resources. Cartoonists depict mankind falling off its overcrowded surface. We are in trouble! All manner of cruelty infests society. Why? To say, "because of sin," is not an incorrect answer, but is it a sufficient one? Sin is a word that has become almost a cliche in modern society.
I believe that God wants us to be more integrated in our thinking about such problems. This is the age of advanced technology. Computers are taken for granted, and the silicon chip may someday make libraries a thing of the past. Along with these unparalleled achievements, people have tremendous access to information of every dimension. They expect answers consistent with such availability. Abstract religious words will not satisfy their desire to understand the world's crisis.
Our world is in chaos because those that were given charge over it have become chaotic. In the beginning, man reflected the image of his Creator and was nurturing to his earth-home, developing and replenishing it. Separation from God brought separation from God's methods, and man has hurt the earth ever since.
It will be a wonderful happy time when our friendship with God is fully restored. Once again we will be like Him who is "meek and lowly in heart" (Matt. 11:29). We too will be gentle and ministering. God will rejoice with us the day we can come home again to our renewed world. He'll trust us once again with its care, because we will have learned to trust and appreciate His way of government.
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