Clean Up

I was talking with my young grandsons about the “Gulf oil spill” this past week. And I was reading in Sunday’s news from Associated Press – “congressional investigators railed (sic) the company and Coast Guard for part of the cleanup effort, saying too much toxic chemical dispersant was used.”

Clean it up no matter what it takes! Well, you shouldn’t have done that! Just plug the hole! Don’t burst the pipe! Use the chemical sparingly! Stop the oil no matter what! I can promise you it is all coming down to the lawyers and who gets the money.

If you’re like me, you’re glad you are not a part of this argument.

I told the boys that I don’t think we need to worry too much about this whole matter. I know it’s a disaster, but there have been disasters before, and there will be more. But God has built into HIS WORLD an amazing, incredible, beyond our understanding “clean-up mechanism.” Consider the aftermath of the Valdez oil spill, Mt. St. Helens, or maybe even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, or the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. The world is still here, people are still alive, grass is still growing, and places that scientists claimed would be hostile to life for a dozen or a thousand years are doing just fine.

I am not saying that it is OK to be careless. I am not saying we don’t need to clean things up as best we can. What I am saying is that God will forever be in charge of this World, and while we may go about killing and destroying, He will always bring everything to an accord with His design and purpose.

This too shall pass.