As we found yesterday, dominion doesn’t mean “domination to exploit”.
You see some of the impact that is of our human making.Īs we contrast these two views, the world of God making and the world of our making, we hear the call in this Scripture to exercise “dominion”. You see it in strip mines that have leveled mountains, pollution in the air that has blocked the sun, melting of the ice caps that has “shrunk” the Poles, a “garbage dump” supposedly the size of Texas in middle of the Pacific and the “dying” of reefs along the coast. We truly live in a “miracle of nature” that is of God’s making.Īt the same time, as you look at our world you can also see an encroaching ugliness. You experience it in the incredible bio-diversity of life. You see it in the majesty of mountain vistas, in the glow of a sunset, in the beauty of a garden, in the ice caps of the Poles and in the deep blue of the sea. The world as God created it in the Beginning is “very good”.Īs you look at our world today you can still see some of that “very goodness”. The Beginning as described in Genesis 1 reflects a harmony, an order, a beauty, a balance, a fullness, a fruitfulness that is of God’s making. We see how the contrast between the “world” and the “Word” adds perspective to how we look at life and clarity to how we understand our role in being a witness for God. We look at the world into which the Word is spoken.
On Wednesday we explore the context of the text. Our job is to keep it good.” Our title is: “Care for Creation”. Welcome to Wednesday! It’s good to be with you today in the Pastor’s Workshop.Īs we work this week we’re going back to God’s “very good” beginning of Creation.
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