Citizenship in Heaven     
    
   Rain on earth. 

   If you are a Christian, or mystified by people called by that name, here's our view, based on the Word of God.

   Without question...God! There is no way infants develop, birds know to build nests, and short-lived butterflies go to the same unknown place every year, if all was chance. The several connections between our brains and our lenses could never appear all at once by destructive mutations, or survive one by one over indeterminable years until the eyesight chain was complete.  

   Still, we are to live by faith, and we do.

   God is God.

   He created earth, all that is in it and on it. Finally, God formed a man and his wife. The Garden of Eden was paradise, complete with a "tree of life." 

   The woman believed a voice that was not God, and both helped themselves to forbidden fruit and lost their innocence. He would not allow them access to the tree of life, so He banished them to the "cursed ground" outside the garden. 

   What is outside along with thorns and thistles? Viruses and other troubles.

   Jesus said, (God) causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Matthew 5:45. What does "rain" include? COVID-19 and so much more. 

   We relate not only to God but God's earth, even if "earth is not our home."
Yes, there are miracles. Often, Christians suffer the rain. The larger issue is who ends up where...heaven or hell?   

   We are also related to neighbors (could be strangers), whom we're commanded to love.

   If you don't believe in God, or in God but not his Son who suffered the rain (judgment) you and I deserve...and rose again...today is the day to put your faith in the One who loves you and will save you. And follow him.

      Jimmy

PS. Is "mother earth" unfair? If you and I were the first humans, we would have done the same thing.