It is nature run amok. Nature was forever cursed in the Garden of Eden.
I read yesterday in Genesis about when Cain killed Abel that the earth cried out. The perfect world that once was harmless and holy…cried out to its creator: “The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.” It is as if nature is compelled to tell the truth, even when mankind is not.
It is in Genesis that the enmity between humanity and nature progressed from transgression to transgression.
Adam’s curse was “cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you…
Until you return to the ground;
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
We were once ONE with nature. But now we are cursed enemies.
It’s amazing to me that Eve is blamed for the curse. And well she should be. But Adam’s sin cost us the oneness with the earth. Cost us safety in the garden. Made the earth produce thorns, thistles, bacterias, viruses, poisons, enmity.
And when Cain killed his brother, the curse deepened.
God said to Cain, “Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
When you cultivate the ground,
it will no longer yield its strength to you.”
Creator, Reveal Your Secrets
As harmful as nature seems right now, the only way out of this morass of death and disease and destruction is if God opens the secrets of creation to the minds of scientists. For a cure. For a vaccine. For a treatment.
We broke nature with our sin.
Nature is the thing that will fix us.
God is the only one who can unlock the secrets.
Open wide your doors of mercy, God. Open our scientists’ eyes so they can see.
