Our Greatest Failure

When the earth in all its splendor was created, as was man, his one bounden duty was to manage the earth and its resources, animals, plants et all.

Every part of nature creates and supports another part. Except man.

Nature is still providing human beings at this point in time, but it's anyone's guess for how long. Man takes away from nature and gives nothing in return.

Nature is one of God's beautiful creations. Through nature, God is able to teach us, speak to us, and provide for us. For this reason, we can find in scripture that we humans are called to protect all of which He has created.

And this is our greatest failure, that we have not protected and renewed Gods gifts to us, exploiting His gifts. Our greed, materialism and our selfishness reign supreme.

God said in Ezekiel Chapter  34:3

"You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock".

So what do we do about it? How can we replenish what God has created? Lets learn to practice three things - 

A. Use as much as one needs, not desires, not wants and not in envy. No greed. No lust. 

B. Reduce and Reuse what we already have, eg paper bags (it is estimated that a standard pine tree, with 45ft of the usable trunk and a diameter of eight inches, will produce around 10,000 sheets of paper. To consider this in another way, one ream of paper (which is 500 sheets) will use 5% of a tree. Think of how much paper we waste in our offices. 

Or take toilet paper in our homes.  Each roll requires 37 gallons (140 liters) of water, 1.3 kilowatt/hours (KWh) of electricity and some 1.5 pounds of wood. We should definitely reduce. 

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C. Share the extras. All our homes have clutter - old or unused stuff which we have hoarded. But one man's clutter can be another man's need.  SHARE!

Let us start following these simple steps in a small way with everyone and everything around us. If 8 Billion people live a life as God intended, imagine how much resources we can save! 

Otherwise think: What are we leaving behind for our children?