“That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5:45
I pray for all the people of the earth that have been affected by the excessive heat this year
For those who have been sickened or suffered loss in Europe this summer; and for those in India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia who endured extreme heat and humidity that lasted for many weeks
It is saddening to hear of the thousands who have died. The hundreds of millions who have suffered. The losses they have faced and will continue to
It is frustrating to know, that to a large part, we are doing this to ourselves
Many are ignoring the evidence and don’t agree that we are changing our climate. Some say it is necessary. That we need to actually increase our actions that have caused this.
But at what cost does this become unacceptable?
It’s like we have run a stop sign while driving too fast down a busy road and have caused a serious accident at an intersection
But we deny we are guilty. We deny we did anything wrong, and argue that we needed to quickly get on with our business down the road. That it was important to run the stop sign and boost our income to higher record levels
The heat is drying out our planet
Making agriculture more difficult and costly.
Deserts are advancing thoughout the world
Prime growing regions are facing drought, water shortages, and crop damage
People are starving in high numbers in Africa and other parts of the globe
And it will likely continue to grow worse
God is surely looking down from the heavens above and sees the iniquity of all this going on
He sees the poor suffering, because they don’t have the means to escape. They try, but tolerence is growing thin. The pressure will only grow worse as it gets warmer
Our creator, the God of all the heavens and the earth sees what is happening here
He is not blind to the harm we are doing to His earth and to all the life that lives here
God surely hears the cry of the poor and listens to their plea for help and mercy
The world is growing hotter
Ice is melting at the fastest rate in our history
Oceans are rising. They’re flooding coasts and islands. Small nations are being lost to the waves
Glaciers are shrinking, collapsing, or disappearing altogether, and with their loss, drought will strike those who live below
Storms are being supercharged, flash flooding is becoming frequent, some are unbelievably disastrous and deadly
It is all because we have run through the stop sign
We did not take the time or have the patience to tap the brakes and slow down. All the signs were posted, we saw this coming decades ago
What is going to be the cost of this in lives, suffering, displacement, and in the wars it produces? How can we continue on like we are?
There are answers and solutions to this problem. But the longer we wait to act, the more generations of us will have to deal with this world wide problem.
How will God look upon all those who are damaging this precious Earth? 8/27/2026
