Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:55:51 PM
Having been struck by the wisdom of my sixteen year old daughter it occurred to me that as it is written ‘the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom’ [Psalm 111:10]. She has passed through the valley of the shadow of death and for her suffering the Lord has given her a quiet confidence in His goodness and sovereignty; she has trusted His word and found it trustworthy.
In a discussion over the issue of global warming and the role that men may have she asked this question. Don’t they know the promises of the Lord? She was referring to the promise made after the Genesis Flood…
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.” [Genesis 8:20-22].
Men have been given dominion over the earth, and men are exercising that dominion…
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” [Genesis 1:26].
The future of the earth is out of our hands. We exist and live in a world created and sustained by the Lord for our good and His glory. It will remain until the time of His choosing. As we cannot ‘add one inch to our stature by worry’, neither can we add one minute of time to the earth by anything in our power. To think otherwise is to elevate man to a place reserved for God.