A Prayer about Nature and God's Creation

A Prayer about Nature and God's Creation

Loving Father and Creator of all we come to you today deeply grateful for your creation.
As we look around us we are amazed at the greatness and majesty of all that you have made.
Nature around us speaks of your greatness - the vast expanse of the sky, the mountains, trees, lakes and streams speak of your great design.
You have given us such beauty in the colors of the rainbow, the beauty of flowers and fields.
Words cannot adequately express the magnificence of all you have created.
We join in praise with the writer of the psalms when he says, 'O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.'
May we show our love and reverence to you, our Lord, by caring for all that you have created. We humbly give you praise and thanks. 

While I am not a fanatic when it comes to the environment, I have to recognize that we have a mandate to care for the home God placed us to live in, which Christ will restore upon his final return, but until then, we still have a responsibility.  We have to provide jobs, develop industry so on and so forth, but we should also be in awe of nature, even if corrupted by the Fall to an extent.  In that awe we ought to figure out how to balance being kind to nature, preservation to an extent, while still developing natural resources to provide fuel, jobs so on and so forth.  We need to seek divine guidance, prayer, in conjunction with science.  It doesn't have to be one or the other, but can be a balance of very vigorous theology balanced by responsible science, technology.  One need not exclude the other, but they can compliment each other.  If they do a balance can be found to the benefit of nature and humanity, but if either is taken to extreme then both suffer.

Shalom and Amen.