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Any of you read NewPaper? There was a mention of a treetop trail on saturday and i coincidentally had the opportunity to visit it on sat morning. It’s found in the central catchment area, and in addition to a long walking trail, the highlight is a suspension bridge that brings you through the treetops and gives you a chance to admire nature around.

In Singapore, it’s not always that you get the opportunity to admirer nature, all of God’s creation. Yet even as I walked around the trail, with the sun glaring on me, uneven stony roads that arn’t that easy to walk, that you being to wonder whether nature was simply there just to make your life harder.

It’s easy to think of nature as something that’s totally neutral, without consciousness. Can nature diliberately want to harm us? Yet in Genesis, it says clearly:

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’”Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you,and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Gen 3:17-19

Our relationship with nature has been broken the very day sin entered each of our lives. Natural disasters are simply a manifestation of the consequences of sin. It’s easy to see how this is so, when a valley gets flooded as a consequence of men’s deforestation on the hill slopes. It might be hard to see it, but in a bigger picture, it’s the same thing with the tsunami. Nature is simply rebelling against men.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Rev 21:1

Yet our hope is anchored in Jesus Christ, and we have a reward that’s waiting for us in heaven. There will be a time when all will be made anew.

What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’ ”
Mark 13:37

Are we prepared for the Lord’s return. Will we be ashamed, or do we stand in watch, awaiting the day when Jesus returns, and all will be made perfect again.

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