As Paul speak of the Table is takes a couple of rabbit trails. Here he goes back to buying meat in the market stalls. There was a lot of petty fighting over using meat that had been sacrificed to idols. Paul said you don’t need to ask if the meat you are buying is sacrificed or not. The earth is God’s and its fullness and they can’t ruin good meat just by sacrificing it.
The earth is the Lord’s in all its fullness. That concept is worth stopping and talking about.
There is a lot of talk going on about the environment. In the European elections last week, and in many local elections, The Green Party made huge gains. People are concerned about the future of the earth. There is an awful lot of hype, and nobody knows for sure how much danger the world is in.
I am not hear to debate that. It does seem that a lot of God’s people overreact to the ‘greeness’ by becoming anti-green in response. There are folks who say that we can do whatever we want to the world because all we have to do is to honour Christ. There are indeed folks who worship creation more than the Creator – but that doesn’t mean that we don’t care.
The earth is the Lord in all of its fulness. He gave us the responsibility to care for the earth; to tend it and care for it. God declares Himself through creation – oughtn’t we to care for it so that the world can see the fulness of God’s creation. Do polluted air and plastic choked seas reflect God’s glory?
If the earth is the Lord’s shouldn’t we be the one to be good stewards of it?
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