The television show Planet Earth,made by Discovery Channel, may as well be the best made educational andentertaining show on the features of this earth we are living on. I justrecently saw an episode that focused on the mountains. It explained how itformed, showed the inhabitants of different mountains and how they adapt to theharsh living conditions of the place. The narrator, David Attenborough,mentioned that people often talk of conquering a mountain, and yet in truththey have not. “We are only visitors,” David said.
At first, if you’ve never seenPlanet Earth before, it may sound boring but it is quite the opposite. Thisshow teaches us to admire the nature that God has created. It is telling usabout His creativity and His power and His attention to detail. It shows allthe variety of mountains, plants and creatures that God has given us. But atthe same time, this show demonstrates how all of creation has fallen; Pumas aretrying to maim other animals for food and even male bighorn sheep fightingagainst each other as a proof of who’s stronger and a competition to decide whogets the female. Climate change has been changing the life of the differentanimals residing in the mountains. These mountains sometimes hold our violenceand other people’s riches since drug trades often take place in mountains,where there are no eyes that spy. Even our attempts to conquer the highest ofmountains, Mount Everest, show our fellness, in that these attempts highlightour desire for personal glory. We long for the recognition that comes withbeing able to scale that treacherous mountain.
With all the majesty of themountains and the adorableness of the different creatures, it makes you wonderwhat it will be like in the new earth and heaven. If the natural landscapes wehave now are already breathtaking, how much more when Jesus comes again?
But until then questions arise:
What are we personally doing to care for nature?
How can we prevent the extinction of endangered species?
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