How is it that we have become so out of touch with our home? Of course the story of The Fall that continues today is the base reason- but as God's children we should be restoring the earth. How bad is it when............................
The Tsukiji Fish market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market) in Tokyo, Japan receives and auctions fish..........fish caught off the eastern coast of the U.S. states. American fishermen from the New England area drive to work in the cars, truck, or suv. They get onto a boat, travel out into the vast ocean. They catch magnificent tuna (as well as other fish)- and they haul the fish back into the harbor. They load the fish on ice into big diesel trucks. The trucker drives the fish to NY's JFK airport. they load the fish from the truck, still on ice, onto a Jet. The pilot flies the plane over the vast ocean all the way to Tokyo, Japan. The unload the fish from the plane, onto a truck-kept cold by ice. They drive the truck to Tsukiji Fish market, where the tuna is auctioned off to the highest bidder. Often that bidder is represents a great Family SeaFood Restaurant from- Oh---NY, or Chicago, or Atlanta- . They load the prime tuna back onto a truck, to a plane, over the ocean from which the fish came, back to a truck- to a restaurant- where it is served.................FRESH!
Have we become disconnected from our home? Have we lost touch with the Earth that God loves and created to enjoy fellowship with us, and it-and all its inhabitants?
How do we get reconnected? What small things can we begin to do to reconnect? To restore?
(Posted By sc)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
God is Pro-Earth Conversation part 1
In the Genesis narrative Tuesday gets extra-love.....twice the story tells us: "And God saw that is was good" (Gen 1:10, 12). But this Tuesday it's cloudy, raining, thundering and lightning. Makes me want to crawl back into bed and sleep this one away. But, creation, even rain tells us so much about God, His wisdom and love- about ourselves:
"Job 5:8-10But as for me, I would seek God, And I would place my cause before God; Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number. He gives rain on the earth, And sends water on the fields." Aparently rain is a "wonder" from God that we ought to be in awe of Him for. (http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/1998/1117_The_Great_Work_of_God_Rain/... a great article on God giving rain)
Jesus used Creation to teach us about life. In Matthew 6 He tells us to consider Lillies to understand the provision of God in life. In another place Jesus tells us that we can discern the seas (or we do discern the seas) by the color of the sky at night, and yet we stumble over clear signs of Jesus. He speaks of birds of the air, and uses a stormy sea to teach of faith and power. He uses seeds to illustrate the hiddenness of His message and the great potential it has. Fish are used over and over again by Him to reveal something of his existence.
James, the Lord's half brother uses creation as illustration to teach us about our tongues.
In Psalm 19 the Psalmist paints a vivid picture of Creation revealing the Glory, the Righteousness, the splendor of God.
What has Creation taught you/us lately? What have we seen about How God has cared for His Earth?
What do these things tell us about God and the Life He wants us to live?
(posted- by SC)
"Job 5:8-10But as for me, I would seek God, And I would place my cause before God; Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number. He gives rain on the earth, And sends water on the fields." Aparently rain is a "wonder" from God that we ought to be in awe of Him for. (http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/1998/1117_The_Great_Work_of_God_Rain/... a great article on God giving rain)
Jesus used Creation to teach us about life. In Matthew 6 He tells us to consider Lillies to understand the provision of God in life. In another place Jesus tells us that we can discern the seas (or we do discern the seas) by the color of the sky at night, and yet we stumble over clear signs of Jesus. He speaks of birds of the air, and uses a stormy sea to teach of faith and power. He uses seeds to illustrate the hiddenness of His message and the great potential it has. Fish are used over and over again by Him to reveal something of his existence.
James, the Lord's half brother uses creation as illustration to teach us about our tongues.
In Psalm 19 the Psalmist paints a vivid picture of Creation revealing the Glory, the Righteousness, the splendor of God.
What has Creation taught you/us lately? What have we seen about How God has cared for His Earth?
What do these things tell us about God and the Life He wants us to live?
(posted- by SC)
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