Believe or Not by Robin Densmore Fuson
The news stories can be
frightening. Headlines might scare the socks off us. There are true events and
not-so-true happenings. What to believe?
I’m old enough to
remember the bell going off in school and scooting under my desk, wrapping my
arms over my head. Why? Because the government told us we were in a crisis and
a nuclear bomb could drop on us. What did they think a skimpy piece of plastic
and metal would do against a nuke?
The teachers told us to open
textbooks that said the planet headed into another ice age. We read the crust
had cooled drastically and the icecaps increased in size. Oh, no!
In my high school years,
we quit using aerosol cans for hairspray, deodorant, and the like for fear of
creating a hole in the ozone.
We were afraid of acid
rain destroying the planet and maybe dissolving our skin.
Now, they are shouting climate
control because our world is no longer freezing but it’s warming and the temps
are melting the ice caps, causing the oceans to swell and claim more land.
Could it be a cycle of change?
There is pollution. There
are too many plastic containers discarded in the wrong place. People should
take care of the planet. But our world is not spiraling out of existence. We
need to be smart and not freak out.
In six days, God created
the world and with His foreknowledge, he knew how long before His Son’s second
coming, which sets up the end of the world as we know it. Don’t you think, He
is aware of how much clean water we need for all time? And created enough to
last? Don’t you think His hand holds back the sun and heat so we will not melt?
Don’t you know He is in control? His love is abundant and He thought of all
this long before creating the world.
The Lord cares for us. God knows everything
and what we need to sustain life. Think about how water recycles. Water deep in
the crest comes up in springs and makes it’s way to rivers that flow to the
ocean. Water from the ocean is pulled up into the atmosphere and into clouds
where they grow and get so full they burst to rain down on the earth. Rain water
then seeps into the ground to fill the aquifers, which spring up to drain into
rivers and the cycle continues. Plants play a role as they suck up the water
and breathe it out in moisture and oxygen for us to breathe and also to go into
the atmosphere. God created all this for us to sustain life until He closes it
all down.
All this to say, don’t
freak out about these things. Trust God to keep everything running. Be sensible
in what we do.
Remember that not
everything we hear is correct. For years, people have believed lies about all I
said and more. Things that we’ve been told have been debunked as false. Just
because you want to believe something is true, doesn’t make it so. The Bible is
the top reference and authority on all these topics. Trust what the Lord, who
made you and loves you, says.
There has been confusion saying there are
different races. There is ONE race, the
human race. The difference is the melanin, a pigment in our skin. Some have a
lot and their skin is a warm rich color while others have less with varying
tones to the lightest with little melanin.
Now we are told there are
multiple genders. From the six days of creation, we understand there are male
and female in every species—plants to insects to fish and reptiles to mammals,
including humans.
In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis
1:1 nkjv). Then God said let the earth bring forth the living creature after its
kind… and God made the beast of the earth according to its kind…So God created
man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female
created He them. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply (Genesis
1:24-28 nkjv).
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