Starting on New Year’s Day (well, technically, on New Year’s Ever), I switched from using One Year Bible Online for my daily Bible reading to the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net”.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Genesis 8-11.

    Noah and his family were in the Ark for over a year. When they were finally able to leave the Ark, the first thing Noah did was make an offering to God. The account tells us that this offering so pleased God that He vowed never again to destroy all life on earth, as long as the earth remains. There is a lesson here for us. We, also, should make serving God a priority. When troubles end for us, the first thing we should do is offer thanks to God, and offer to His use from our material possessions.

    I think it is worth looking at God’s promise to Noah a little more closely. He promised that He would never again curse the ground on because of mankind. As long as the earth remains there will be planting and harvesting, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day. Mankind will never again trigger devastation over the whole earth similar to the flood. As a Christian, this promise tells me all I need to know about those who claim that human emissions of CO2 will destroy the earth. Let me be clear, it is our responsibility to act wisely and not cause unwanted destruction around us. That includes not wastefully generating CO2. Each and every one of us is called to be good stewards of the resources which God has given us. However, God has set this earth up such that He will not allow mankind to destroy it. Each and every one of us will answer to God for how we use the resources He has given into our control. Let us choose our actions so that we will maximize those resources for God.