God loves Earth

God, I thank you for this day, I pray that I may hear your counsel today. There is more things in this world that can take away our attention from you coming up everyday. So with having the ears to hear You I pray that my eyes can see Your hand in Your creation.

I think we far too often miss that God is in creation all around us because He built it and sustains it. We get caught up in all the things that man has done wrong to the world and how bad things are. The fact is if God can wipe away our sins from us, he can wipe away all the damage that man has done to the earth.

For some, this world is a source of trouble and is unfixable. For another, this world is God's creation and it's our inherited right to take care of it. When Jesus said do not conform to the things of this world He was referring to the sinful nature of mankind. His creation is still beautiful. Which makes me wonder why He would destroy it? Some people see revelations as the epic war that destroys everything, I don't. Lets take a look at some of the so called darker parts of revelations.

Revelation 8

The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer

1When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

3Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. 4The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand. 5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.


People may see this as God slamming the earth with fire and it being utterly horrific. It may be, but I see this passage completely different, all the parts mentioned above are worship related. The worship of silence, haven't you had a service where God has spoken to everyone and there is supernaturally a silence over everyone? What about the seven angels, the same number of lights on the candle representing the aspects of the Spirit? Now the most obvious the incense in the tabernacle was clearly praise and worship! Don't we sing the song Fire Fall Down? Are we afraid of the fire hitting the roof of the building and burning us alive? No we expect the fire of God to mean His presence and his cleansing power. Thunder rumblings and lightnings are all symbolic of God's word from his throne going out into all the earth (Rev. 4) (Eze. 1). So I see this as an invasion of Holy worship being poured out on the earth, that kind of worship will change the earth! A third of the earth would be consumed by God's worship instantly, real change!

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