"Earth Day: Our MAIN Problems"

 50 years ago today was the very first EARTH DAY. 

Meant to call attention to our ECOLOGICAL problems, Earth Day has been with us ever since.

Two weeks before its debut, however, the singing group The Temptations recorded one of THE greatest songs of all time, ABOUT THE EARTH, and ironically it was released two weeks AFTER that first Earth Day.  

You see, the lyrics to "Ball of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)" focused on our SOCIAL problems.  Drug abuse. Racism. Higher taxes. Unemployment. Suicide, and "too many bills," to name a few.  (The only part of the song that WASN'T "up-to-the-minute" was the line about "The Beatles' new record's a gas" because the Fab Four broke up a few days before the song was recorded.)

So, whereas 1969's "Ball of Fire" (by Tommy James and the Shondells) was about THE SUN, 1970's "Ball of Confusion" shone bright light on the EARTH....and let's just say every problem but our ECOLOGICAL problems seemed to be mentioned in that powerful, POWERFUL song.

Some would say the song missed the IMPORTANT emphasis...the earth's ECOLOGICAL problems. Not me.

But the writers of that song DID miss something even MORE important, in my opinion.

You see, 50 years later, Earth is STILL a "Ball of Confusion"....worse than ever, in fact. And Earth Day has not helped it one bit.

This earth is messed up because of SIN.....and it won't be STRAIGHTENED up until Jesus returns, plain and simple.  (That was a note MISSING from "Ball of Confusion").

So as we celebrate Earth Day, 50 years later, yes....BE A GOOD STEWARD of the world God gave us to inhabit.  Don't abuse it, APPRECIATE it  and USE ITS RESOURCES WISELY.

But just remember, our MAIN problems are SOCIAL and SPIRITUAL, not ecological.