Hey Christian:
If you're only going to pick up trash today and ignore trash tomorrow, you're no better than the person who does church once a year at Easter.
If your idea of Earth Day doesn't include worship of the Creator, you're no better than the person who passes off Christmas as Santa Clause.
If you're participating in Earth Day to asuage your guilt, you're grieving the Holy Spirit and denying the power of Christ's blood to totally forgive your sin.
If you're participating in Earth Day so you can make yourself feel more important than the person next to you, hit your knees and repent.
If you're so committed to the notion that God is "out there" but had nothing to do with how the world and every living thing came to be, Earth Day's not your thing. You have no idea how your actions for the planet today will screw up evolution.
If you're doing Earth Day to influence politicians and clergy to work on your behalf so you can go home and browse your PC with American Idol running in the background, please don't.
If you think you can get through Earth Day without once picking up the Bible and meditating God's word, you've wasted it.**
If you think you can get through Earth Day without once thanking God for who He is and all He has done, you risk Him saying "I never knew you" someday.
If Earth Day is the only thing you're doing out of loving obedience to God it's only a good start.
If you are a pro-choice Christian, don't use Earth Day to promote your concern for chemicals in the environment if you won't promote that chemicals harm unborn babies.
If you are a pro-life Christian, don't use Earth Day to promote recycling when living things all around you need your attention.
If there's only absolute truth in your understanding of climate change and water pollution and moutain top mining and recycling and energy conservation and no absolute grace, you are only half-full of all Christ calls us to have.
If you can speak about creation care with the tongues of men and of angels but don't have love you're a gong and a clanging cymbal.
If you can predict the earth's future and completely know all the mysteries of ecosystem diversity and climate change and have a faith that can save mountains, but don't have love, you are nothing.
If you give all you possess to the poor and needy and defenseless and wildlife organizations and are willing to offer your life to save a tree but don't have love, you get nothing from it.
"Preach the Gospel always, when necessary use words." -- St. Francis of Assisi
**(click here and scroll down for a couple good verses)
