What is God’s

to the Earth?

God the Creator

“…the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”
— Genesis 1:1-2

“The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
— Genesis 2:7

“God saw all that He had made, and it was very good.”
— Genesis 1:31

“For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.”
— Romans 1:20

“Believers think God invented and made the universe—like a man making a picture or composing a tune. A painter is not a picture, and he does not die if his picture is destroyed. You may say, ‘He put a lot of himself into it,’ but you only mean that all of its beauty and interest has come out of his head.”
— C.S. Lewis

God our

Reveal Answer

“…Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.”
— Genesis 9:3

The created world needed a caretaker and hands-on manager, and God gave this responsibility to

.

“God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’”
— Genesis 1:28

The earth is ours to manage and steward.

Our Response: Our Worship

“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?”
— Psalm 8:3-4

Allow the majesty of the natural world to call to memory the majesty of God.

We worship with

for the promise of eternity.

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. … For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
— Colossians 1:15-16, 19-20