Today let us continue in the book of Genesis. We are going to look at a couple passages and let’s see how we can apply them today in our daily lives.

Genesis 1:11-12

(11) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. (12) And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:20-25

(20) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. (21) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (22) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. (23) And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. (24) And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. (25) And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

   Here we find God creating all the vegetation and the animals to fill the Earth. Last week we learned that we were to have dominion over them. We were to care for and nurture God’s creation. The Earth was set up to be a perfect place for man and all the earth’s elements to live in perfect harmony. Not until Adam and Eve ate of the fruit were they cursed, and would now deal with in Genesis 3 verses 17 and 18, thorns and the not so pleasant side of what should have been a perfect world. They would be cast out of the Garden of Eden which was a place of perfection.

  In todays society we here a lot about man made global crises pertaining to endangered species and the preserving of the environment. In one sense, we can definitely say that many of the Earths crises are manmade. Because we have sinned and continued to sin, there will never be perfect harmony between man and earth’s elements. God made it that way as we see in verses Genesis 3 verses 17-18. Clearly though, what the earth has to offer is made for mankind. God tells us so in Genesis 1:29-30. God pretty much hands over all the things of this Earth that He created for us to have and consume.

Questions to ponder.

What responsibility do we have in "preserving” the resources God has provided us when he has given them to us to use?

If these resources are truly from God, will we ever run out of the necessities we need, coal, oil, gas, water, crops, cattle, etc…?

Are some of the global crises we hear about possibly made from God? Remember the plagues of Egypt in the book of Exodus.

 Would love to hear your thoughts.