My Vision of Caring for Your Creation-Lent 5, 2020

Prayer Focus: Stewardship of Creation

Gracious Lord, Your creation is something amazing to behold. The diversity of animals and plants. The splendor of the stars and sky. The complexity of every form of life. The genius of reproduction, both sexual and asexual, the beauty of innocent life, and the grandeur of maturity. When I think about all You have made, I marvel at both the design and the delegation. Who is mankind that You would have placed us as stewards over this awesome wonder, to care, learn, and grow as an act of worship of You? We praise You for the fact of creation and how You brought it to be out of Your wisdom and by Your Word. We praise You for how You designed this world as a harmonious ecosystem with plants and animals dependent upon each other, dependent upon the sun and the rain. Trees grow and may yield fruit and the seed within was designed to replicate the same type of tree, each according to their kind. Animals grow and reproduce and replicate their own species. It is truly remarkable! Help us to see how to take care of what You designed and created. Help us to see that it’s not a political issue at all, but one of faith and worship of the One whose Word brought it to be. Help us to be wise and respectful stewards, never abusing this privilege of delegation, but rather to cherish our role as an act of love toward the creation upon which we are dependent, too. Give us eyes to see how You want us to care for the world and to live in peace and harmony with all You have made. We thank You for Your faithfulness to bring it all to perfect renewal when our Lord Jesus returns. It is in His Name we pray. Amen.

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Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.