If you had made the world ... ?

Morning: Psalms 5, 6; Isaiah 1:21-31: I Thessalonians 2:1-12

Evening: Psalms 10, 11; Amos 3:1-11; Luke 20:9-18

If you had made this beautiful earth, would you not be dismayed at how some mistreat both the earth and those who want to care for it - like indigenous peoples, so-called ‘tree-huggers’ and ‘liberals’, green new dealers, environmentalists? Would you not be angry at what is happening to all that you made so beautifully and so well? Then you would understand the wrath of God depicted in Jesus’ parable of the vineyard. The parable suggests that what God has made may turn against those who damage it, and perhaps God will, too? If they don’t shape up. Wouldn’t you?