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• Since Christ is coming, aren’t our efforts pointless?
• Aren’t there more pressing social and spiritual issues of greater threat?

If Christ comes soon, wouldn’t our “save the planet” efforts be essentially pointless?

Say after all this you don’t believe in global warming, or if you do, you don’t care and you figure God will soon “lower the curtain” and burn the wicked (which will really cause global warming) before we’ve got anything to worry about anyway. (I happen to fall into the latter camp). Do we then get a free pass on our conscience? I think not for three primary reasons.

First, in times of peace and prosperity, God will judge us based on how we reacted to The Great Challenge of peace and prosperity, so we don’t get to relax all day in the hammock when we know the lawn needs to be mowed. Second, we are often instructed to be spiritually prepared for the Second Coming today, but continue to build and prepare temporally as if it won’t occur for generations (“keep planting Cherry trees”).

 

Wouldn’t Christ comfort those who honestly mourn, even if their mourning is misplaced?

Third, and importantly, God will judge us for our relationships to other people. There are a good number of fellow citizens, largely liberal and largely under-the-influence of atheism, who honestly and strongly believe that this is important and disaster is the only outcome if we do nothing. I can’t see Christ sanctioning us to belittle them or cast stones.

I do not believe in “tolerance” when it comes to tolerance of things that can be clearly or spiritually shown to have a bad outcome, but I do believe we can tolerate, try to accommodate, or otherwise bring comfort to other people on subjects that only they care about if we can admit that it won’t hurt and could only help. Even if the only help it really brings is their peace of mind, Christ would do that for them if he could because he loves them and wants their peace of mind.

 

In the end, global warming is small potatoes compared to the threats generated by wickedness, deception, selfishness, and apathy

I have to admit that in the grand scheme of things, I personally see global warming as a minor thing – even if it is 100% real – relative to many of the disasters and potential disasters that are with us now or threaten us simply as a result of wide-spread wickedness. I happen to think that the wickedness of our times is akin to our Father’s house (the earth) smoldering steadily with only one foreseeable outcome unless we soon take actions that STOP FIRE (like repent on a massive scale); and yet in the midst of it we have brothers and sisters who form a cadre of fools – veritable stooges – who are blind to the consequences of their wickedness. Then others who are essentially good, but unwittingly and actively facilitate of wickedness. Yet others who are apathetic and too busy planning the next boating trip to take much action against wickedness.

 

Negligent pyromaniacs scolding us to “get a hybrid”

Instead these scalawag brothers of ours charge at windmills and are up in arms about the need trim the grass, straighten the pictures, take out the trash, and drive a “hybrid” – not only because it can “save the planet” from grave danger, but also because our neighbors (the Europeans) will think we’re cool. While they’re thus preaching to us on “true family values” (their “takes a village” form of religion), they’re leaving cigarettes on our couch, gasoline uncapped in the garage, inviting friends over for orgies who end up knocking candles down in the ordeal, and they take out the smoke alarm batteries to power the game boy so their kids won’t bother them while they do it.

Stopping them from burning the house down is paramount, but “in our spare time” maybe we can do some of the yard work.

I have a feeling the time will come when God will demonstrate for all where the real dangers have been lying all along. In the meantime, as the children of promise who are charged to labor with our brothers to convince them of the error of their ways, I guess I can occasionally stop and straighten a picture as I’m running to keep the gas can from getting kicked over. Our Father has charged us not only with the safety of His house while He’s gone, but also a host of household chores that we should attend to as best as we can even when it seems futile or silly after trying to save the house from pyromaniacs. For however many years we have to live here before God chooses to burn it Himself, we might as well try and make it a clean, sustainable, and a beautiful place while we’re here. Remember, “Take care of the Garden” was one of the first commandments to Adam and Eve. 

 

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