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This is part of a conversation I had with my Dad. It's a bit one sided since I don't post his thoughts, but it's mostly just rambling thought anyway. I haven't posted here in a long time. This stuff takes so much energy! And it often leaves me mildly depressed - ugh. I feel that the global warming issue has people up in arms on all sides because of money/power. Some politicians and corporations use it as a platform for money, fear mongering, etc. Other companies and individuals fear for their pocketbooks and for the dangers of a corrupt, controlling government.
In the end I feel like we were given stewardship of the planet and things like recycling, lowering hazardous emissions, lessening reliance on one kind of fuel - they are all good things. People may abuse the "green effort" for personal gain but I don't want to throw the baby (environmental health) out with the bath water (evil politicians, dubious taxes, etc). Even if it's only half as bad as they say, I'm convinced that the excesses of this country are not helping things.
I think God made "The Way of Things Work" to keep the planet in balance.
Here in the U.S., we're getting more diseases and cancers that we can't cure. Our mass-produced food and lack of exercise are killing us off earlier with heart problems and diabetes and such. Our deviance and obsessions spread emotional and physical disease and disruption. I think whether this country moves toward big business or big government, either will create a Tower of Babel that will collapse. I do not believe, unless God has super special plans that we can't foresee, that America will move towards God in the long run. But I'm a bit of a fatalist. Maybe things will crash far enough that we'll have to rebuild from the ground up and move back towards family and faith - and seek our Creator.
But I digress. If global warming does hit for sure, or even a mini-ice-age, it'll basically kill a lot of us off, whether via ice, heat, famine or drought. And then things will heal.
Now thats a very jaded thing to say but I think it works like that. I would never want to see people die or suffer because of our excesses or even because of planetary cycles. But I think God set it up to work that way. I think it is happening already and always has.
I think increased "global awareness" messes with our perception. The stakes have always been the same. Whenever I start trying to see things from a more global and/or historical level, it makes me more confident in God's control and yet have a harder time seeing Him as a personal God. But amidst the global chaos, people are redeemed. God shows his love in a million ways. I love Romans 8:22lately. Creation groans more loudly. The cloud of distractions and fear that has become more dense. And the need for Christ becomes that much more obvious. I guess it all comes back to that, huh?
"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will."
As a side note: that's where I get hung up. My musings bring me to Christ, but that doesn't mean we don't fight to fix what's broken. My Dad is good at that. I see him doing his part to fix the broken things. And yet I see other people with completely different opinions about what's broken with our government and planet, doing their part to fix it. We're working at cross purposes because of a mix of conflicting ideals and conflicting fears. I DO belive that ultimately what's broken is our relationship with God. So where does it all meet?
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