Subservient? We have become a world obsessed with putting animals, trees, and even lichens and mosses on a pedestal that throws a great shadow over all creation; almost taking on human characteristics. They have emotions, feel pain, and form “loving” relationships. In some sense, because we perceive them to be the underdog needing our attention.
Think about it. We have accepted a roll as caretaker subservient, holding up a housing development to protect a lichen, rejecting the belief that we are caretaker dominant, the hunter who shoots the sow bear but, but shows mercy and rescues it from certain death.
God’s Word tells us: “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26-31).
Do not lack the will to be mercifully while being a caretaker dominant over this earth, for it is not an option, it is the command of our God. The business of ruling not serving His creation is our business, yours and mine. May each of us do it willingly and with a servant’s heart.
. “I pray today in Jesus name that reject the role of serving the environment that You O Lord have created us to rule over. Forgive us when we embrace the worldly role of caretaker subservient. Amen!”
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