The text below is written as one would relate to God from the Christian Perspective.

Those who love God honor their covenant with Him to be stewards of the Earth. (Genesis 9:1-20)    Can you truly love God if you spend your time and your energy destroying  God's creations?   NO!    Can you truly love God if you sit by idly watching while someone else destroys God's creations?   NO!      

As stewards, you may be called upon to alter or redirect the growth of some of God's creatures, but wanton destruction of nature's creatures over vast stretches of the Earth's surface is nothing short of raping and murdering your own mother.   Millions of square miles of the Earth are now covered with tar, cement or buildings.   Millions more have been simply raped and left as dead.   

Do you recall the Biblical reference to "the Cedars or Lebanon?"   Where lush forests once grew, there is little left but rocks and sand.     Are you aware that prior to the arrival of humans, much of Australia was covered with rich, dense forests?   Today, those same areas  grow mostly brush and grass.   

The Earth, like you, is a conscious, living being, with a divine connection to God.   She is about to evict humans, just like you would get rid of lice that infested you body's skin.  

Knowing and Loving God 

You can easily know God indirectly by studying His creations.   Look at the world around you.   Look at your neighbor.   Look at your family.   Look in a mirror.   Everything you see, feel, hear, taste, touch, and/or smell is a creation of God.  And above all, know yourself.   That's how to know God.   

And as for loving God, the same truth applies.   Love everything you see, feel, hear, taste, touch, and/or smell because everything you experience is a creation of God.    The correct words to describe how to relate to the physical creations of God you see here on Earth are:   Love,   Appreciate,   Respect,   Honor,   Clean, Care for,   Oversee,   and   Nurture when necessary.   

So if you really want to love God, stop for a few minutes each day and say thank you for everything in your present life, and I mean everything,  and then get up off your knees or your butt and start helping each other.  Feed and clothe each other.  Dress each other's wounds, both physically and emotionally.  Be there for each other.  

Know that God has sent your brothers and sisters to Earth with you so that they would be here for you when you needed them; to watch over you when you need to be watched over; to care for you when you need care;  just as you came here to care for, nurture, and watch over  them.   

Sing and dance with each other.  Eat, be merry, and above all,  make love to, for, and with each other.   You are all of one human  family.   The day you realize your place in Creation, is the day you will begin transforming  the Earth back into the Garden of Eden that it once was.   That's how to know God.   That's how to love God.   

Ecclesiastes 3:19  "For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one does, so does the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity."   

 Matthew 25:40   "What you do onto the least of mine, you do onto me."

You might also want to read these passages.   
John 14:12 - Luke 17:21 - John 10:34, 35 - Isaiah 41:23  - Psalms 82:6 - John 8:32

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