Flash Forward

This coming Sunday the sermon title is "Where is God in Planet Earth?" and the texts are Genesis 1:25-31, Colossians 1:15-18, and John 1:1-5. If you look up the word "steward" in the dictionary you will find that it means taking care, managing another's property and possessions. We are called by God not only to steward all that God has given to us as individuals, but to steward the creation, which, to be honest, we have done a terrible job doing. Do you think of yourself as a steward of creation? You are. I am. Or at least that is one of our callings. Former Czech president Vaclav Havel wrote in a New York Times Op-Ed article a couple of months ago that "Maybe we should start considering our sojourn on earth as a loan." Indeed. We have been rapacious with our planet and need to care for it as stewards.