641- God in His Love For Us
Christian Life: Stewardship
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- God in His love for us lent us this planet,
- Gave it a purpose in time and in space:
- Small as a spark from the fire of creation,
- Cradle of life and the home of our race.
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- Thanks be to God for its bounty and beauty,
- Life that sustains us in body and mind:
- Plenty for all, if we learn how to share it,
- Riches undreamed of to fathom and find.
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- Long have our human wars ruined its harvest;
- Long has earth bowed to the terror of forced;
- Long have we wasted what others have need of,
- Poisoned the fountain of life at its source.
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- Earth is the Lord's: it is ours to enjoy it,
- Ours, as His stewards, to farm and defend.
- From its pollution, misuse, and destruction,
- Good Lord, deliver us, world without end!