I've been thinking lately about the fact that, in the end, nothing that works against God's moral laws/natural law/C. S. Lewis' Tao can succeed. Therefore, we can neither destroy nor save the earth (or our country). But we can care for it in the name of good stewardship (Genesis 1:26, 28) and we can be agents of Christ in salvation of people's souls. We can also save or improve their lives, thereby perhaps also saving their souls, and even if their souls are not saved, we have done what is good and right according to God's moral laws/natural law/the Tao.
Yet the means by which we go about doing this must be in harmony with these laws or they are doomed to failure.
This morning while picking my son up from marching practice with his dad's school band, in between my kids' conversation I heard snippets of Glenn Beck on the radio. He was talking about Democrats' efforts to stop oil interests in our own country while the price of oil continues to climb. He played a clip of Bill Clinton a few years ago saying clearly that we need to slow down the economy in order to save the planet for our grandchildren.
Now perhaps that statement was taken out of context and Clinton didn't mean it the way it sounds to us today, but still it shows how politics-of-the-day and politi-speak run both our society and our economy. It shows that we simply can't have our cake and eat it too if this means an incomplete consideration of the way things work, which are immutable unless the Creator decides to change them, at His prerogative. (Or, as Rush Limbaugh said on his show later, which I heard on the way home from Suzuki violin class, "Liberals will be devoured by their own policies.")
No doubt the problem of rising oil prices is greater than simply the tapping our own oil reserves, but the fact remains that everything comes at a cost. Which costs are we willing to pay and for what reasons, is the question.
