New2view's Blog   Life on The Blue Marble

I’ve touched on this subject before but am compelled to add to it because of ongoing observations.  As a senior citizen, I feel very blessed to have been able to observe some of nature throughout many years now, without being a back-woods hermit.

Though I cannot claim to have been on African Safari’s, or an explorer in deep sea quests, yet from my viewpoint and experience it is utterly obvious that we have only begun to appreciate the complexity and diversity of life on planet earth.

That complexity and diversity speaks volumes to me.  It says that there is a power and intelligence far beyond human capability, yet still within our capacity to appreciate…  if we are humble enough.

Humility is sadly lacking in most of humankind.  We prefer to theorize that somehow, by sheer accidental means we have developed into the ultimate life-form on earth.  Even worse, that we are capable of managing our own affairs, and even all the other life-forms of the earth wisely.

These assumptions, supported by never-ending, conflicting and unsupported fanciful theories, strikes me as the greatest weakness of our kind, otherwise known as absolute arrogance!

Countless generations of mankind. even those of first nations peoples, which have perhaps been the most successful, has proven beyond a doubt we desperately need superior guidance to manage our affairs and also to care for all life on earth, including the environment. 

Its now very obvious to thinking people this unique and beautiful planet was never intended to be managed in isolation from its designer and builder.  Isn’t it about time we humbly acknowledge that basic truth?*

•  He is “the Creator of the heavens, . . . the Former of the earth and the Maker of it.” (Isa 45:18) He is “the Former of the mountains and the Creator of the wind” (Am 4:13) and is “the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them.”