Perhaps The Lord Will Still Be With Us

The Psalmist announced “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein.” (Ps. 24:1)

But the children of this world keep arguing, “No, it is ours! It is all ours, and we will do with it what we please!” And so the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, even though there is enough here to guarantee that everyone has enough to eat, and to maintain their lives.

We probe the earth miles beneath the surface for oil, we strip the surface for coal, we tap nuclear power for electricity, and then scatter the radio-active by-products, we spend ¾ of all the wealth of the world to pay for past, present, and future wars…and the blood of our brave young men and women flows like a river!

We strip the forests and encourage floods, we are careless about rich black top-soil that took millions of years to produce, we do nuclear testing, and disturb magnetic fields that surround our planet. We can agree with the old commercial, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”!

And so, we pay for our folly, until we can learn a new stewardship of the good earth, and lift up the words, “the earth is the Lord’s”. No, it isn’t nice to “fool Mother Nature”. And it is not nice to take God’s good earth, and make it into an insane asylum!

When will we learn the lessons of peace? When shall we learn the lessons of stewardship and give to the Lord what is His due?

Let us bow before Him! Let us confess our sins and our faithlessness! Let us join faithfully to praise His Name. Perhaps He will still be merciful to us, and shower once more His blessings upon the land.