It's In Our Nature

In the Late evening, the North sky glistened with pulsating stars and mountain tops reflected dancing lights upon their snow crested peaks. A ballet in the heavens moved with fluidity and elegance as rhythmic motions were choreographed by God Himself.

The Aurora Borealis also known as the Northern Lights, is a phenomenon not seen by many has captivated me since my childhood, growing up in Alaska. I recall the joyous sensation of feeling so privileged to witness such otherworldly illumination.

Dancing streams of gleaming light provided me with a connection to God like no other aspect of nature. Since God created the world, his invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been easily seen and understood by what He created. We have no excuse to not know Him.¹

As nature reveals God’s glory, wisdom and power, it does not reveal Him as "nature." "The heavens reveal the glory of God." (Ps 19.1). His glory is shown through His creation for us!

Christianity has dropped the ball, refusing to acknowledge our responsibility as caretakers of this planet He has loaned to us. Even now the multitude of Christians refusing to acknowledge any scientific link between global warming and our contributions of greenhouse gases, have missed the larger picture. If there is no link between our waste emissions and the greenhouse effect, we still have a responsibility as caretakers of something that God entrusted to us.

We are receiving a failing grade and are missing a great opportunity to get involved. Instead, either driven by fear of "jumping ship", and joining up with nature religions who worship nature itself or by pure selfishness and laziness, we have been complacent.

People are taking note. As long as we continue our apathy towards protecting our environment we will be in direct disobedience towards God. We are not being good stewards with that he has provided to us, and nature religions who have recognized the growing concern have legions of God seekers turning towards them in search for answers to our growing planetary crisis.

The Aurora Borealis is my reminder that this planet is not ours to destroy, but to keep for our future generations and to respect the fact that it is part of God’s canvas of art. He has painted a majestic mural specifically for our pleasure and His glory. Let us not tip over the bottle of paint.

So, as a Christ Follower I need to get more involved. Caring for the world does not mean "loving it" as Paul warned in 1 John 2:15-18, so we cannot hide in the cocoon we are so comfortable sheltering ourselves in.

If they don’t see us involved, they won’t see Him caring.


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¹Romans 1:20