NOW IS THE TIME

True discipleship to Jesus will yield the fruit of true stewardship to what God has created; the earth and everyone and everything that inhabits it.

Because I love God I will love all of His handiwork, all of which He loves with a steadfast love.

In the loss of God centeredness the earth has suffered, people have suffered, all of God’s creatures have suffered.  In the awe and the fear of God human beings were to be stewards of the earth and all of its inhabitants.  In the greed of human beings the earth has been raped, robbed, and pillaged; its inhabitants have inherited the consequences of that greed and end up raping, robbing, and pillaging one another.  And yet we still ask why.  Why all this violence?  Why all this hate?  Why all this injustice?  Why all these wars?  Why?  The answer is plain and clear.

          “For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give

           thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their

           foolish hearts were darkened” (Romans 1:21).

To top it all off we are without excuse no matter how hard we try to find someone or something to blame.

In many places worship and praise of God have gone extinct.  Mankind is glorified, honored, and applauded.  His words and deeds fill the air.  His plans are developed and worked out in repairing and ruling the world, the governments, and even the churches.  His former interventions didn’t work so a new one is brought forth.  But it will fail as well.  Human words, deeds, and plans have no substance and they will never succeed.

We have no excuse.  We are now in the eleventh hour.  We have raped, robbed, and ruined the earth that God created and commissioned us to attend to and care for and time is running out.  We have no other hope than to humble ourselves and repent of our ways.  Now is the time to turn with breathtaking wonder and worship God in awe and fear.  Now is the time to praise this Creator who spoke this world into being and thank Him with all that is within us.  Now is the time to let God rule in all His Glory and bring a rebirth to this earth and to His people.

Now is the time to stop, be still, and know that God is God.