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Human
causes, but not global warming
The motives of the so-called "scientific discoveries" which
put the focus on mankind for the causes of our weather changes is a social/political conditioning. It is true the weather
patterns are becoming more severe due to the activities of people. But, it is not because of the concept of greenhouse gasses
and the ideas of a global warming. God works in many mysterious ways to call us, His children, into His plans for living because
we have eternal souls He most endearingly cares for. However, there are three overall ways He uses to get and keep our attention
– though we are most adamant about turning a deaf ear in our pride of self-determination: His Holy Spirit speaking the
Truth to our hearts, Jesus Christ His Son carrying our consequences for wrongdoing, and God Himself, working through manifestations
of natural (including humanity) weather and geological means.
God expects people as human beings to delight in reordering
the order of the earth’s nature for our own uses. The underlying reasons we do what we do, with each other, forms the
healthy or destructive results the created world reels from… or sighs the beautiful sigh of contented thankfulness that
provides fair weather, solid stable ground, and hearty animal and plant life. It is not as much that we have damaged the planet
in a way to make it less inhabitable than it was before technological times. It is more that we have turned our backs on the
very nature of why we exist. We were designed to be caring and sharing creatures with a selfless concern for the ones around
us. But, through labor and working together to accomplish a better way of living, we have forgotten why we work. An error
that has undermined God’s intent for us as a people is the presumption a husband and wife may not be employed in the
same location.
Striving to follow our independent knowledge and intuition
regarding God’s leading is not the same as following His leading to and from our personal vows in trust to others; and
attempts to mold others to fit their will into our will. This reorients into unstable disarray their places and positions
to and with us from God. Un-natural compulsions pushing humanity’s overdriven desires to consume, combined with trying
to please our loved ones’ overdriven desires to consume, aligns our evermore confused hearts with patterns of distancing,
rather than enhancing togetherness, from who we are to our mate, children, families and friends. Frustrations with wrongly
founded impulses to achieve (by trying to fix what seems to be broken by breaking it more) prod us further on to strive even
harder, in running away from rightly directed achievement, in hope to find the unity and harmony we know we need in our places
and positions with those to whom we are responsible.
As we go from each moment’s situation to the next,
God gives to us the shared intelligence to create, devise, and build to our heart’s content as long as everything is
done for His glory. The modern technology drive; conveniences of appliances, transportation, even electricity, though oftentimes
spurred along because of traditionally overlooked evil intent, is a benefit instead of an opposition to purity and faith.
The ever-present danger, though, is to prioritize the uses of our creations above God as our mutual Source. It is a blessing
to do well for our family with the situations at hand but it is easy to be trapped by the ease of conveniences. Without the
care and concern that gives structure to ideas which generate useful technology; ideas, thought of as the substance of technology’s
flourishing progress, do not address the balances necessary to maintain and nurture society, and as a result, the natural
functions of planet earth.
Modern transportation and communications have given to us
the independence to be irresponsible through the isolation away from our inter-dependence and sharing within the responsibilities
of family structures. Meaning: The power of money and its non-discriminatory and heartless influence brings to the attention
of greedy self-focused individualists a sense of emotional security at the expense of the loss of integrity through the duties
of respect to authority. When we are compulsive and impulsive it denies our joy of temperance in gratitude and destroys the
world around us. Secular pragmatic scientific processing is being abused as a replacement for reliance in our God given measure
of faith to depend in His reasons for what we do and do not do. People often become subject to the ‘church’ state
of mind (organized social standards whether governmental, scientific, medical, and/or religious having a group identity –
“mob mentality”), instead of the social ‘church’ being subject to God, a man and his wife, and their
family.
The means of exchange we call money has given to us selfish
ideas and emotions which exclude long range goals of security, comfort, and joy for everyone. Ideas that throwing money at
problems will never convert the ungodly heart to recognize faith in money supplants faith in God. The natural rituals of purposeful
function of the individual, as each of us is part of the greater whole of humanity, have been shirked and cast aside through
the pride of accomplishment for accomplishment's sake. Our needs are few, and they include companionship, food, shelter, transportation,
and clothes. Our wants are endless and quickly will transform a need into an extravagance when we identify ourselves with
our possessions whether experiential or material. This does not mean we should live cheaply or buy low quality goods and services
(though there are times and situations where doing so may be required), it means the reasons we have for what we say and do
have been focused in establishing who we are through our own self interest instead of appreciating our respective loyalties
under God’s authority.
Genesis 12:3 says, "That I may bless them who
bless thee, But him who maketh light of thee, will I curse, - So shall be, blessed in thee, all the families of the ground."
(this understood with regard that the admonition was made under Old Testament Law)
A man or woman, being married, represent themselves and each other. The promise from God to Abraham is a conditional
proclamation concerning the choices each person has to honor their own position of authority, and the place of authority God
bestowed upon Abraham along with his wife Sarah. Dignity and respect for who Abraham is in his decisions of faith applies
to any of his descendents just as children represent the parents in a family. Or, for illustration, a sales representative
is the essence of the company that employs him or her to the customer.
It is not that one person is deemed to bless Abraham and
another is deemed to make light of him. It is that everyone who is involved in dealing with Abraham has a choice to honor
God's purpose in Abraham's life, or to treat Abraham as if he is contrary to their own desires - that he does not matter.
Since Abraham represents God's priority of reality in the unseen as having life transforming authority over the temporal seen
physical world, self-serving godless manipulation of the world is destructive to reality of life for everyone. When God's
promise to Abraham says, "...all the families of the ground..." we understand that this way of living, God's promise to Abraham,
is a promise that applies to everyone and not certain people as opposed to others.
The fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham is the death
and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But, then, there is repentance. Not a turning away from the wrong into a vacuum - a turning
toward the right in the respect of active faith with the people around us. This active faith is active in our determination
to stay the course with our wives and husbands, openly to each other, with who we are in all that we are. The wonderful strength
of the good news of the Gospel is for everyone, but it is often turned into the bad news of hardship when we fear reprisal.
It is not so much what we do with anything in life, it is why we do what we do - and that is not open to the persuasive manipulation
"any means to an end" meddling in the lives of our neighbors. Common respect for the institution of marriage will always bring
social order. Attempts at social order, without common respect for marriage, will neither bring social order or respect the
marriages of those who respect the process.
Traditional matrimony is the only human condition providing
the qualities of that effect for the individual as well as the community. Additionally, the environment itself is spiritually
affected by and through people’s respect, and lack thereof, for their God designed positions unto each other and the
rest of society. We are created a people of representation: Together, a unified family represents God’s Trinity, His
Word of Creation; a man represents carrying Jesus Christ’s Cross (or consequences) for himself his wife and children,
a woman represents carrying the Holy Spirit of Resurrection (or witness) of her husband’s word with hers, and their
children, and social order in respect for God’s design of faithful living integrates a common shared respect of integrity
called, “the Body of Christ”.
Here is a list of the distorted attitudes we have accumulated
with regard to our purposes for living:
1. Food
We eat what we like the taste
of and we do not eat what we do not like the taste of. We eat to get full. We pleasure in choosing delectable delights of
culinary fancy without regard to any issues of health.
We should eat for health
- choosing from what is available to us the items that will bring the nutrients we need (red meat, fish, fowl, vegetables,
and fruits; while substantially reducing sugars and starches) for strength and to guard against disease. We can
prepare the healthful items we have chosen in such a way they are palatable and pleasure-able to eat.
2. Sex
We gratify ourselves through
the use of others and call the emotionally conflicting and confusing results love. The instinctual involvements of a human
being through intimacy automatically enforce and reinforce a sense of familial bonding. We, then, disregard the implications
of entwinement with another, as it applies to our existing nature, by ignoring the permanent responsibilities to each other
and the whole of society. So, when we get caught in the throes of the balance between keeping established a personal autonomy
and the emotionally twisted special-ness of having taken advantage of the pleasures of the use of ourselves and others - and
the denial of the authorities and priorities involved with being responsible to and for our intimate partner and all others,
we find ourselves killing our unborn children to hide our own indiscretions. We also find we have stds.
We should keep any personal intimate involvement within marriage between a man and a woman.
Interactions of intimacy are for the purposes of expressive and exclusive physical communication; consequently esteeming the
bonds of responsible breeding. The abortion and stds issues will be dead.
3. Clothing
We dress for
style and fashion based in the provocative tension between the socially contrived artificial values of modesty and immodesty
- a “What will someone think or say?” emotional submission to community standards of status and rebellion.
We dress for others (who are doing the same), instead of ourselves, and lose our dignity in the process by trying to find personal
expression through social response.
Any clothing
we choose to wear should be for personal comfort, environmental protection, occupation requirements, and natural honest
satisfaction where 'form follows function' in style of designs.
We weren’t going to do this but enough questions arose… :
People in public gathering places (anywhere openly accessible to
unexpected observance) trust to have their standards of well-mannered behavior not impinged upon. So, the incensed intense
preoccupation society has with sexual overtones and undertones of lewdness in nudity, (open exposure of directly procreative
functioning body areas); general public rules hold court over is a necessary illusory façade to give the pressures of importance
to keeping oneself respectfully and appropriately covered.
These concerns are exponentially increased by inward interests
about having and losing companionship attentions to unknown or unexpected influences. The primary reason for general taboos
concerning expected covering is private personal hygiene (containment of body fluid emissions) to not be an unexpected soiling
of public use walkways, seating, etc. The secondary reason, connected functionally to the first, is private personal containment
of overt sexual arousal. The third, thought of by many as the first, is one’s personal rights of decision to choose
to share their physical appearance with only their spouse.
‘Clothing optional’ groups take the concepts of freedom
of natural expression to a polarized extreme where the primary reasons for covering get lost to casting blame against ‘prudish
restraints’ that override free will. Anything is not ‘what’ but ‘why’ and when people are mature
enough to understand ‘why’, their own behavior adapts to sensibilities that are not intrusive to others. But,
not always because, properly, social wisdom must take authority from through the personal decisions of individual family faithful
reliance in Who God is to them as the Creator of social discourse.
Morality and immorality are popularly confused as one and the same
with traditional social customs. Traditional social customs are designed to restrain those who have yet to acquire inner self-restraint.
Though often used to gauge people’s attentions to personal decency with regard to others, wearing clothes or not is
not moral or immoral – but it can be ethical or unethical (given that moral behavior is a faithful spiritual endeavor
and ethical behavior is a politely social endeavor).
Because Christian living is unobtrusive to practical worldly wisdom for the sake of its witness, Godliness and ungodliness
get generally confused with social graces. Societal standards can only emulate Godly principles in that a worldly social collective
is not an entity with a single voice of personal faith. This is why marriage between a man and woman is the required natural
foundation to set social standards where there are agreed upon expectations about what a group of people may allow or deny
its inhabitants. And, God is well pleased with that.
4. Transportation
Much of our traveling is to validate a false sense of right in
our wrong living. There is a tremendous waste of fuel used for faithless reasons.
“If God had in mind for us not to go where we wish as often
as we wish He wouldn’t have put so much oil underground.” Vehicles represent a man’s natural hunter/gatherer
instincts of provision for his wife and children. We should use, and enjoy in gratitude, our various modes of transport as
we see fit to uphold the responsibilities we have within our families and to society. This does not negate, but reinforces,
the freedoms of expression in quality and performance. Moderation in all things finds its reality, not in arbitrarily limiting
consumption, but in minding our own purposes with respect to others minding their own purposes.
5. Work
We work our jobs to acquire a paycheck to establish a selfish sense
of independence and determination. We live in the resentful misleading notion that if we had enough money we wouldn’t
apply ourselves to working. We are deceived into believing in an emotionally expressive status in the power to purchase and
own.
We should work our jobs, to do the best job we can in producing
quality goods and services, because we are children of the living God. We should never work any job because we feel we must
for the money while our doing in work, no matter what we do to gain an income, can be enjoyed for the work’s sake. Doing
our best is in realizing our responsibilities - that we are in service to God in our marriages and families. Since, according
to Scripture, the vows of marriage, and God’s creative wisdom; a man’s hands are literally his wife’s and
a woman’s hands are literally her husband’s… there is an avenue of shared appreciation in employed endeavors
that bring a faithful joy to accomplishment.
Are you or anyone
you know running for election to hold one of the many offices in your local area, state, or national governments? If not,
ask yourself why.
6. Money
We use money to buy substitutes for reality. We, as men and women,
go our separate ways to leave our children with whoever will keep them out of our activities in order to pay for the idea
of the securities of home and family we are giving up for the purpose. So, we accumulate huge debts to buy our way out of
the time and responsibilities we are willingly ignoring. We do this in an effort to fill the gaps we have created through
a false importance of separation.
There is enough shelter in the dwellings we have constructed, enough
food in the stores we maintain, and enough generated utility power to eliminate the suffering of the homeless and downtrodden.
Yet, we change the face of the constellations with satellites that appear as stars. It is our failure as a people in evaluating
the troubles affecting ones who are adversely affected… in a way that increases our troubles by viewing our resources
as ours instead of God's to share. No matter anyone’s financial status and/or false assumptions of class distinctions
based in monetary quantities, any sincere work is considered by God to be honorable.
7. Health
We identify with and believe the flesh body in which our spirit
body resides is who we are. Our will of choosing is subject to the body we hold in priority. As we view our flesh body as
a sort of an appliance we can alter to suit our vital and wishful materialistic needs, we go to flesh mechanics called doctors
to apply surgeries and potions to fix what we feel needs corrected and/or improved.
We should prioritize our spirit body over our flesh body where our will
of ongoing decisions serves the spirit body that is whole and complete in Christ. When our spirit body is subject to our frail
damageable flesh body, it is subject to the ills and pains associated with the flesh body’s interaction with environmental
surroundings, including the faithless projected attitudes of Godless living others who are allowing their own spirit bodies
to be subjected to their will in prioritizing flesh body instincts. When we subject our will unto and into the Will of God
in Christ, we are placing our spirit body in its proper place of authority over our flesh body to keep it rightly in subjection
to our complete whole vitality.
Additionally, when our will of priority actively subjects our flesh
body to our spirit body in faith, we realize that we may visit doctors for flesh assistance with ailments and take appropriate
potions that may ease our flesh complaints that work to subvert our trust in Christ in keeping our spirit body in the
lead.
Since our wholeness is in keeping in priority the authority
of the spirit body over the flesh body, our responsible trust in God is able to transform the flesh body into complete health.
Realizing our flesh body is temporary while the spirit body is permanent, we have the freedom of the will of faith to trust
in God to lift us up from miseries, in moderation and sensibility, to use His leading as we see fit. In marriage, when a man
and woman share their vows of promise, the “two as one” is actually a melding and integration of two soul bodies
that share one existence unto God according to His ways. This brings us to understand that our flesh bodies (though physically
separate) are useful to appreciate the joys of shared spiritual wholeness for the right motivations.
Living
is not about what we have become. Living is about who we are becoming.
A central point in the messages of Jesus Christ is not a matter of who one trusts because circumstances can change who we
think we can trust. His calling is a matter of who one wants to consistently trust despite any
circumstances. I Corinthians 2:9-16 says, But as
it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep
things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows
no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that
he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Most of us, over seven billion persons on our world today, are
existing in a wishful, determined, disorganized fog. We are working against our natural world and its purposes, in our attempts
to satisfy what we believe is a responsible right way (including the “wrong is right” anarchists’ irresponsible
counter-stance protest) of living. This is why the climate is turning against us. The earth is alive in a way we do not realize
in that nature and the elements exist via God’s expressed thought. Choices to be mature enough to be forthright with
those who care for us, about why we do what we say and do, affects the earth’s function through our God given authority
in Christ – whether or not we are accepting His salvation. Living for seemingly our own purposes, outside God’s
mercy through faith in Christ, causes the functions of “mother nature earth” to ail.
Amazing to comprehend, in our covetous practical thinking,
is our ongoing connections to God’s natural merciful laws of creative maintenance are engaged according to His prophetic
promises. Our true senses for realizing God’s livelihood, as it affects the planet’s health, is in how we respond
to His expected obedience, or not, to those whom we are committed to, in and through our own promises. It may seem a disconnected
connection, but our respect for faithfully active patterns of marriage, family, and our neighbors is undermined by gossip
driven by self-indulgence. We live in Source-of-Life-denying pretense that taking care of our own business means meddling
in the business of others as a “socially developing organism”.
Since all things are created and held in existence by the
promises of God through His spoken Word, and we as a people have His authority placed in our will, our collective attitudes
and activities mold and shape the functioning of planet earth. We fight respect and appreciation for each other in our closest
companionships, and consequently in war, collectively. In our pride we feel we have the right to be wrong and refuse our right
to be right in our responsibilities and we are too blinded by our collective narcissism ("When in doubt, restrict" attitudes
of control superiority over and against others) to be humble enough to take care of each other, through the risk of faith,
as we were designed.
There is a structure of authority of freedom in Christ that is mostly cast aside as we go about
our self destructive ways. Our egos and the pride of emotional intensities brings us to ignore our places unto ourselves and
others by trying to establish our own places of design. We have forgotten to be humble enough to appreciate the reasons for
the various functions of our existence and we have passed the misconceptions onto our children. As we turn our attentions
to issues of soul salvation, our combined change in outlook and God’s power of healing will, by default, work in concert
to bring back to us the beautiful planet we seem to be losing.
The health of our planet is also a legal issue because justice,
to the secular world, equates with punishment and God is also the God of Justice, but He is our Father of just rewards for
life, liberty, and happiness through His Son in our behalf. God's plan of salvation involves deliverance from punishment into
the justice of reconciliation. The risks of loss we face for fear of being advantaged by parasitic personalities has its considerable
concerns. But, expressing redemption through our reaching out to the less fortunate, changes the consequences of wrong (in
whatever form and for whatever reason) into the consequences of appreciated value worthwhile.
What to do
Using the witness of Moses, Daniel, and Hezekiah as an example
of who we are in Christ, we can take intercessory responsibility for the people who are working to force contradictions to
faithful living in prayer before God. This helps remove the pressures of darkness from over those who are opposing God’s
expectations for us all. Matthew 7:8 says, “For whosoever asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, shall
it be opened.”
Matthew
25:31-46
"There are two ways to live your life... One is as though nothing is a miracle,
The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein
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