Only a Truly Good God would say...

We must remember this world we have is only temporary. It seems entirely possible that some of the alarmist talk about Global Warming may be true. How much is true remains to be seen. And we must be vigilant to avoid giving power to anyone who seeks it for ambition.

Deborah Zabarenko is Environmental Correspondent for Reuters.com. It is possible that some of what she publishes is from self-seeking sources after unwise power. Yet it is all very compelling information. I found her from a very alarming article on AOL.com for today.

Just before that, some truth obviously from the Creator blessed me with the perspective we should begin with: Knowing God is where everything worth having begins. Below was a Verse of the Day for me.

"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness." James 3:13-18, NIV

This is one of those self-evident proofs that at least the New Testament book of James, thought to be written by Jesus' younger half-brother, is clearly truth from the mind of the Creator Himself, Him who loves all Mankind. This is the Verse Of The Day for today from BibleGateway.com, who offers a VotD tool for any website, including Myspace.

The book of James is full of ordinary concepts applied in a very spiritually pure way, and in many ways a summary of Proverbs applied with the full revelation of God in mind. That revelation consists in the deeds and lessons of Jesus the Messiah, as well as those men he selected to fulfill that revelation. Unlike the false Jesus some present, the truth from James cannot be said to be easy to live by. Consider one of my favorites, which I have trouble finding the discipline to live by, and which comes only a few verses later than the above.

"Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins." James 4:13-17, NIV (emphasis added)