Do not love the world or the things in the world. ... [for] the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
John the Beloved. 1 John 2:15–17. Hi, it’s Nathan, and this is Day 7 of 30 Days Reflecting on the Kingdom. Here’s the bottom, final reality: the way self-absorbed way we humans have been doing life is unsustainable. There’s an expiration date on it. We can ignore it. We can throw ourselves into just going-with-the-flow—but this things gonna crash and burn. Self-oriented living self-consuming system. The natural world is sustained by finely-balanced systems of giving and receiving. When these systems are out of balance, ecological collapse sooner or later follows. We are each part of relational ecosystems. If each person’s presence in that ecosystem is primarily as a self-oriented taker, eventually that relational ecosystem, too, will drained of life, and collapse. However, for those who learn to live the God-way, bringing the blessings of life into the relational ecosystems in which they exist—they’re preparing to be part of the eternal, sustainable relational ecosystem that will one day, again, define life on earth.
