Have you wondered
why California has been having so many more devastating wildfires?
Is it global warming?
Is it terrorism?
Is it a sign of the end times?
Actually, there's a fairly straightforward reason... and I thought I'd share it with you because it directly relates to the 'dominion' theme of
my daily emails.
You see... for decades California followed basic forest management principles.... which involved the clearing of brush and the thinning of trees.
But in the 1990s, this approach changed.
With increased environmental regulations, the interest in maintaining forests declined.
And as a result, the combustible fuel load of California's forests has soared... leading to more frequent and hotter, more dangerous fires.
If you're interested in learning more about the history of all this, you can find a good summary in a recent article in Forbes
Magazine.
But I provide you the basics here because it's an examples of what can happen when we fail to pursue God's call to rule over the earth like He's told us to...
... and we put our own ideas about the environment above the instructions of our Creator.
In other words, our faithfulness to the dominion mandate has
consequences... and the fire situation in California illustrates this all too well.