Up On A Roof

I spent the better part of yesterday helping my father-in-law put a new roof on his house. It was hot. Really hot! No shade. Direct sun. All day. It literally was the hottest day of the year so far, approaching the mid-90's in the afternoon, with maximum humidity levels. In my delirium, I contemplated the obvious effects of global warming in the countryside of Western Pennsylvania. The ice caps must be melting and polar bears are going the way of the dinosaur. It was really hot up there on that roof.

The excessive heat of the day caused my brain to think weird thoughts - like "what in the world are these global warming people thinking! This heat is NOTHING compared to the impending heat wave that the unbeliever is about to face". Maybe not such a weird thought...

Here's another thought... maybe instead of trying to save the planet and save the glaciers and save the whales and save the environment, we ought to be all about passing around the good news of the gospel so that people would be rescued from that 'eternal heat wave'. Not that we don't want to be good stewards of the earth we were given to live on, but an eternal conscious punishment in the lake of fire is of infinite more importance than 'global warming', as the buzzword goes. Losing someone to the eternal flame - the place of weeping and gnashing of teeth, the place where the worm never dies - far outweighs ice caps and polar bears.