As is every other human being, I am the incarnate image of God and as such, am God’s beloved. My greatest desire is to live in that love forever. In an effort to return that infinite love, I promise to praise, honor, and serve God.
Everything I have is created by God and has been gifted for my use and protection. God has given me access to anything that might be of assistance in honoring my creator. I yearn to know God more fully and to continually return that great love with the help of the gifts that have been bestowed upon me.
Hence as a steward of creation, I promise to protect the earth and everything in it so these gifts can be used to glorify God. However, no part of creation can ever take the place of God nor impede me from returning God’s love. Everything must work toward the single goal of praising God.
It is important that I keep all of creation in balance so that I can seek and return God’s love. Everything in creation has value only to the extent that it can be used by all of humanity to serve God. There is no preference for health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, life or death as each of these can be conducive to searching out God’s love and calling forth our loving response. The only choice that needs to be made is the determination of what will deepen God’s love in me.
Neither can I be the obstacle that stands in the way of responding to God’s love. I cannot hide behind my ego and self-will or the walls of protection that I have built to make myself believe that I am serving God when in actuality I have replaced God’s will with my own.
God is alive in me and together we will work to co-create the earthly journey of my human existence so that I might be the voice and hands of God at work in the world. As God’s love is revealed to me, my response will be to live out the love of God that surrounds and protects me.
