EARTHS CARETAKERS

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This weekend just gone i had the delight of stepping into my garden and seeing the tulip shoots popping up their heads. I had wondered a few weeks before had I not paid attention, had I misread the instructions; nothing seemed to be happening. I moved the troff so it had a chance of more sunlight and rain. And low and behold this weekend we have the first sign I had paid attention and thing in the garden are starting to grow and come to life.

This got me thinking about God being the head gardener and how he appoints us to be the caretakers of earth.For creation was made by God, therefore creation rightfully belongs to God. Yet the God of love and mercy, graciously gave as a gift to humankind, with understanding that would look after it.

God made us caretakers of His creation, He entrusted all He had made to us. God's caretakers" humanity is appointed by God to be stewards, managers, and cultivators of creation. This role involves exercising stewardship over the Earth's environment, animals, and resources.


God shall provide the seasons and resources that is needed; Sun, rain, vegetation. Ultermatly God is the head gardener and we are the apprentices. We're to ensure nature's habitat and nature well-being is respected and cared for.  In caring for creation God doesn't prioritise one caretaker over another. We all have a role to play, as a team. The role of a caretaker involves acting on faith, using compassion. God doesn't need us to take care of Him, but He does need us to care for what belongs to Him on this earth.


The bible gives clear instructions, some instructions are heeded and some are ignored. Here are just two examples - In Genesis 2:8; And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Then in Genesis 2:15;The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.


O' What precious gift God gifts to us, the wonder of his creation. Where birds will sing and flowers grow. From the dawn of time and passed on generation to generation, we have a responsibility each to nurture, grow and harvest the goodness of earth that God all that God himself has made.

Thank for listening, happy Spring gardening. 

Prolific Writer/Poetess 

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