I’m recycling a post from last year’s Earth Day. I am still struck by the fact that God has commanded us to practice Sabbath and how incredibly “green” real Sabbaths are. So, here is a recycled blog post on Earth Day and Sabbath:
I just read this today: “If Christians were to stop driving, shopping, and working one day a week, we’d use 14% less energy.” (For a link to the full article go here.) Crazy, eh? If people would take the Sabbath VERY seriously, the Earth would be greener almost instantly. Maybe God knew what he was talking about, all those thousands of years ago when he said:
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy” (Exodus 20:8-11).
I wish Christians (myself included) would realize how “green” God is and then begin caring for this precious creation. The command to have a Sabbath is only one example…but a powerful one. A green command. A command to rest. To give ourselves a rest. To give our kids a rest. To give our employees a rest. To give our equipment a rest. To give foreign workers a rest. To give the world a rest. To honor The Creator, by honoring the Sabbath.
Filed under: Church, doing right
matt you have to read
serve God, save the planet
you will love it, and it may even give you some more insights into how green God is
Josh: Do you have a copy? I’ve been interested in it ever since I read that article he wrote…