It is October 8, we had our furnaces serviced today for the coming winter, and we used our air conditioning systems yesterday for worship and fellowship hour. October 8 and we haven't turned on the furnaces yet. Global warming? Who knows? The temptation is to lay the blame there for what seems like weather changes; major weather changes at that. But how can we really know the extent of the weather changes? I remember back in the 1970's when we talked about how we must be good stewards of the earth or we would pay dearly. Are the seeming major weather changes part of the payback for our misuse of the earth?

Psalm 24:1 reads "The earth is the LORD'S, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. " It all belongs to God, and we are to be stewards over it. With stewardship comes responsibility, and responsibility means that there are consequences to actions.

"For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God." Romans 8:19 The creation for which we are appointed stewards is waiting for us to demonstrate that we are God's children. It is so important that we understand that, as children of God, we have a family responsibility to our Father - a responsibility as family members - to tend our home.

I'm from the South and love the heat. I don't care for the cold or for snow. But I do care that we not put our planet out of kilter and destroy the natural rhythms of the earth. I'll live with the snow and cold if we can be good stewards and treat earth as our Father desires. We are to do all for the glory of God. The earth belongs to God - everything in it. Can we realize that and be good stewards?