Apologetics

Who Or What Do You Worship?

by Jeff Drinnan
03/20/21
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Today as I went to pay my bill at Giant, the machine asked if I wanted to donate to "help heal the planet." Really? Our planet doesn't need healing. People and our nation do!

"If God is not the center of your life, something else is." -Timothy Keller

Evidently, for anyone who would consider making a donation to "healing our planet", the earth, which God created, is an idol, a false god.

17th century poet and reverend George Herbert addressed worshipping the creation rather than the creator in his poem "The Pulley".

The Pulley
BY GEORGE HERBERT

When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by,
“Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can.
Let the world’s riches, which dispersèd lie,
Contract into a span.”

So strength first made a way;
Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure.
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure,
Rest in the bottom lay.

“For if I should,” said he,
“Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature;
So both should losers be.

“Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness;
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.”

God created the earth for our benefit, a gift from Him but not for us to worship. We are to be good stewards of the earth.

"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.'" Genesis 1: 26-28

Today's "save the planet" pitch is an example of corporate America falling in lockstep with the pseudo environmentalist movement, members of which have been called "watermellon environmentalists" - green on the outside, red on the inside. It's not about being a good steward of the earth, which God gave us for our benefit.

A few years ago I saw a sticker on a pickup truck that read "Human caused global warming is a product of recycled Marxism mixed with junk science."
"Environmentalism" doesn't do much good for people. In fact, it hurts us by destroying the economy, which provides human necessities. Like Don Quixote, environmentalism attacks windmills, although, in real life, maybe we need to attack them. Windmills have been slaughtering birds and was partly responsible for lack of energy during the Texas deep freeze!

There's a lot in our society that needs healing: The opioid crisis, murders and other crimes, mental problems... Someone once asked me "why are so many people messed up today?". The answer is not blowing in the wind, but that  people have turned from God.

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14