WORLD STEWARDSHIP - FOR GOD!

THIS IS A RECENT PHOTO of deforestation in Kenya.     This has been going on here for decades. President Daniel arap Moi was one of the first to try and control it, and augmented a determined effort to stop logging and plant more trees, with himself visibly at the fore.    It did not last for long, and is now worse than before.     Currently President Kenyatta has put a 90 day ban on logging, and has called for a national investigation to discover just how bad things are.    They are BAD.

Lake Nakuru

And it is not just the forests that are being cut down but our freshwater lakes and rivers are being polluted and diminished.     If the world is concerned about plastic waste in the oceans and rivers, WE should be no less concerned about our own waterways and lakes, which have also become dumping grounds for man made garbage and waste, including chemical and factory waste.  Wild life is now appropriately at risk and even radical danger.    Kenya has not seemed too successful at controlling the environmental pillage that goes on every day.    Taken together with the continuing problem of damage caused by poaching of our Wild Life, we seem doomed to being more and more impoverished, until we shall become a total desert land.      So sad.    So irresponsible.
We ourselves feel so blessed to live on a well watered gift of land with beautiful and varied trees that seem to just draw down the rain.   Truly blessed.   Everything so green and lush just now.    How good it is to cultivate a caring attitude for what God, in His Grace, has given us to protect and guard.

A while back I was asked to comment on 'Conserving the Environment' during a Conference here in Eldoret.     Nothing has changed really since then - circa 2014.

'IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE?
According to the World Science Congress, meeting in the U.S.A. recently (2014), NOT MUCH!  They say that by 2046 Planet Earth will not be able to support life as we know it - without a 'miracle'?   (the projected date given here has not changed).

HOW has the Environment become so endangered?   Through indiscriminate de-forestation worldwide;   though Pollution of the Air;   through pollution of the rivers, lakes and oceans of the world.     WHO, or WHAT is responsible for this?     MAN himself.   He is responsible.  He has FAILED to be the CARETAKER he was Appointed by God to be.

Prophesying about the Last Days, in Isaiah 24v2 of the Old Testament of the Bible, Isaiah says

The land and the earth shall be utterly laid waste

and utterly pillaged.  For the LORD has said this.

The land and the earth mourn and wither;

the world languishes and withers.....

They are defiled by their inhabitants, because they 

have transgressed the Laws,

discarded the Statutes, and broken the

Everlasting Covenant.

THEREFORE, a curse devours the land and the earth,

and they who dwell in it suffer the punishment of

their guilt.  THEREFORE, the inhabitants of the land

are scorched and parched under the curse of God's Wrath,

and few will be left.'

YES, it is Man that has defiled and spoiled the Earth, and its Ecology.  He has broken the Everlasting Covenant.

He has done it progressively as he has turned away from, and refused to keep God in mind, ignoring His Laws and Statutes.

Look at Deuteronomy 28v15, also in the Old Testament of the Bible.    Moses says -

'It shall come to pass that if you will not obey

the voice of the Lord your God, and in being watchful

to do all His Commandments and Statutes, 

then these Curses will overtake you.

Cursed shall you be in the city and in the field.

Cursed shall be your basket and kneading trouble.

Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, of your land

and of the increase of your cattle and your sheep....

....The Lord shall make the rain of your land 

powdered soil and dust; from the heavens it shall

come down upon you till you are destroyed.'

Without GOD in the equation of life, the result will always be VERY negative.

IN THE BEGINNING - in Genesis2v15 of the Old Testament of the Bible, we find that  -

The LORD tool the Man (Adam) and PUT him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it, whilst at the same time obeying God's Commandment.

ADAM failed, in that he gave in to selfish temptations, putting his own interest before God's Word....and by doing so lost Eden.

LATER we find Adam's son CAIN having murdered and buried his brother, Abel.

God asks Cain saying 'WHERE is your brother, Abel?'

And Cain answered God, and said 'I do not know - Am I my brother's keeper?'

YES, of course he was; we are ALL, not just responsible for the world around us, but also for the welfare of each other.   The fact that we are IRRESPONSIBLE clearly demonstrates how far we have strayed from God's original Plan and Purpose.

It is as we FORGET God, that we come to destroy ourselves and our environment.

WE become the ones at fault.   Instead of TAKING CARE, we have exploited (selfishly utilised) God's Provision till it has become totally exhausted.

We have winked at what is against God's Holy Ordinance, and laid ourselves and the Nations open  to evil and even a Curse.

ISAIAH, talking of these days says that the problem will be........

'As with the people, so with the priest.'     

Yes even the people of God will be found having deserted their responsibility as Watchmen and Watch-women to the rest of Mankind, failing to Blow the Trumpet of Alarm, and Wake Up!
JEREMIAH 3v2 says ' Lift up your eyes......and SEE.... you have polluted the land with your harlotry's, and your wickedness/ THEREFORE, for this reason the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain'    It is not just the exploitation Ecology that causes a decline in our Stewardship of the world environment, but but the erosion of our moral fibre.
The People of God - especially - are meant to WATCH, and to ALERT the people, and to avert the Judgement of God by bringing men to repentance ( a change of heart and mind ).
This Nation of Kenya, stalked and hunted as it is by Corruption, sickness, and famine, has seen serious change in its climate; a change linked to its own carelessness in considering the Ecology.   We have suffered, increasingly (and continue to suffer year after year), increased drought in many areas, with human lives, and even livestock perishing.    Ours forests cut down and not replenished, our rainfall either too much or too little, and our industries using our rivers and lakes as dumping ground for poison and chemical waste.    
The Scientists, looking at similar neglect throughout the world, say there is now no hope!   Life as we know it will soon be impossible on this Planet.   Man has run out of answers.      Indeed with all the talk we now hear of trying to colonise OTHER planets, it would seem Man has given up thinking there is a way out, and that if he is to remain alive and well, then he must seriously look for somewhere else to GO.     There is very little ACTION being taken in order to reverse the situation on Earth

AND IT IS TRUE, without God in our thoughts, there is virtually NOTHING that CAN be successfully attempted.. ....
Nothing that can truly IMPROVE the Harvests or the Industrial  growth rate.  Nothing that will conserve the Environment.    And the Scientific World is not hiding the Truth from us.  Things have gone too far.    -     There may not be time to make a Remedy.

BUT WITH GOD.......

With GOD something might be done!

Look at 2. Chronicles 7v14  -   'If My People pray - if My People that are called by My Name pray - (If the JEWS. the CHRISTIANS - out of all the peoples of the Earth - would pray........SOME may want to limit this answer to refer ONLY to the Jew and Christian only, but I would rather put it another way still, and say  -IF ALL THOSE who will seek ME, with all their heart, and believe they have found Me, whoever and wherever, they are in the world, - and humble themselves and Pray, and seek My face, and turn away from their wicked selfish ways, THEN........

THEN I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and HEAL THE LAND - (The Earth).

JEREMIAH 29v13 says - 'And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart - and I will be found of you.....'      We all, each one of us, can decide to look for God, and when we do so sincerely wanting to discover His will for our life in the world we live in, then we have opportunity to find Him, and to become a tool in His Hand.

Prayer is not enough on its own.   We have to humble ourselves, and to see ourselves in need of CHANGE; of repentance; a turning around of our life and vision.
The Bible says that IF we would commit ourselves to DOING God's Word, then the first verses of Deuteronomy 28 will take effect --
Every Blessing will come upon us and overtake us, so that BLESSED we shall be in the cit and the field.  Blessed shall be the fruit of our body, the fruit of our ground, and the fruit of our beasts.   Blessed shall be our basket, and our kneading trough.    Blessed shall we be, in abundance, till the Lord shall make us to have a surplus of prosperity.

If we fail to arouse ourselves, to DO this, and to SEEK God's Will, then we shall have nothing to hand on to our children and grandchildren except a worsening world climate and society, that in less than fifty years will make it impossible to live.
We MUST turn back to God, and serve HIM, rather than ourselves.   THEN with HIM by our side, we can perhaps make a difference, and delay what is coming upon the Earth and Humanity.    We may even prevent it altogether.
There is no other way to Conserve the Environment, and to see Agricultural and Industrial growth of any permanent or ongoing nature.

NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE 2014, but we DO see a worsening, and there is already a world anxiety and unrest that is bringing even now 'distress of nations in bewilderment and perplexity (without resources left wanting, embarrassed, in doubt, not knowing which way to turn......
Men swooning away or expiring with fear and dread and apprehension and expectation of the things that are coming on the world..........(The Gospel of LUKE 21v25-26 - The Amplified Bible)

GOD BLESS and be with you.      Keep Awake, and BE Ready to be Court Away The Holy Spirit at ANY time.

John, Esther and Daryl Green