Be Still And Know

READ: Psalm 24:1 NLT 'The earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it, the world, and all who live in it.' Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage climate activist, has been amazingly effective in helping the world to wake up to the reality of our abuse of this planet. She said to a UN Climate Summit,” Sometimes we just simply have to find a way. The moment we decide to fulfil something, we can do anything. And I’m sure the moment we start behaving as if we were in an emergency, we can avoid climate and ecological catastrophe. Humans are very adaptable: we can still fix this. But the opportunity to do so will not last for long. We must start today. We have no more excuses.” I think the psalmist would have shouted, “Hallelujah” to Greta’s words. His starting point was that the world is the Lord’s, and so we have the responsibility to care for the world that God has given us. We are answerable for this majestic planet and will have to give an account to God for the way in which we have looked after it. The truth is