Earthling

The Story

He feels everything that touches his skin.—the joy and the pain.  He hears the cries and the laughter.  He sees the tears and the smiles.  Everything that happens within him, he is aware.  Nothing goes unnoticed.  He cries when they cry, yet laughs when they laugh.  Tears flow down his eyes as he feels their pain.  He knows no matter what they do now, it is too late, and he will eventually die, yet he continues to give them shelter, to give them warmth. 

He is their only hope.  He protects them from out-of-the-world threats.  His brethren have accused him of being too soft.  All of them had already destroyed their own.  Only he continues to love them even though they kill him.  He tells them this. “They were given to me as a gift from our father as my responsibility.  Why would I want to destroy the gifts of my father? Why would I want to tell him that I am not responsible for the task?” But they will reply, “Brother, the very gift your father has given to you is killing you.  Even now you cough in our presence!  Maybe our father had made a mistake? Maybe you were not yet as prepared to receive this gift as he had thought? Brother, heed our plea! They do not care about you! They treat you as we would treat a dwarf from the far realm! Though you hold them dear, they reject you.  The things they do to you—their curses and abuse—will only destroy you.  You are one of the great ones. Why let the weak destroy the strong?”

Every time they met, he would be pleaded to reject them. Still he remained strong in his decision.  All his other brothers had already abandoned their gifts from their father.  His youngest brother, threw them to the sun, the second youngest poisoned them, his oldest brother froze them as did the second and third oldest, while the forth oldest and the fifth destroyed them with disease.  Only the sixth oldest managed to hold on to his gift longer but soon also gave them up to plague.  Only the seventh son keeps his gift.  But the pressure from his brothers is killing him.  He understands their concern.  He knows very well whatever they do now will not make it any better…it can only get worst.

No matter how many times they have tried to save him, their wars had only made it worst.  Their inventions were meant to make things better, but for every good creation they came up with, they made ten more that were bad.  Their thirst for war was too much for him to handle, yet he continues to shelter them.  He has the power over their lives, and they do not care.  All they say about is that if he dies, they will go to his older brother, and he would accept them.  His cries are felt by them, but they do not care—he holds back his shelter to let them feel the burning of the sun, but they still ignore him.  He will die.

The Revelation

He is the Earth and his brothers, the planets.  His people and destroyers are us…the humans.  God gave us this planet to live in. He gave us the most suitable place to live in, yet we destroy it.  He gave us examples of other planets.  Planets like Venus which is full of poison…like Mercury which is too near the sun, or Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto which are too far away.  God gave us a perfect world with only one error…mankind.  We were meant to take only what that needed to be taken and give back everything else, but what we are doing is just taking. 

Imagine if the Earth really had a conscience.  Imagine if you are the Earth, wouldn’t you like to listen to your ‘brothers’ and let them go? Imagine you are the Earth, and every human being was a needle stuck into your skin.  Now wouldn’t you want to give them up more?

God gave us this Earth this place for us to live in…for us to take care of…why can’t we just do that? Give more than you take; do more than you should.  We need to save our Earth and every small step that we take puts us closer to a healthier Earth.