A Prayer about Stewarding Creation

Creator God,

I confess, I’m not always keen on all of your creation. 

When I work out in my pool and find frogs or salamanders or spiders, 

my first instinct is to avoid them or get rid of them. 

But your Word reminds me,

“the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof….” (Psalm 24:1) 

Everything in heaven and earth belongs to you, 

for you planned it, designed it, and created it. 

True, creation is not what it was in the beginning, 

before Adam and Eve procured the one fruit 

you had not permitted them to partake of.

Now, “the whole creation has been longing together 

in the pains of childbirth until now” (Romans 8:22). 

Until the day Jesus comes to fully restore all of your created beauty, 

make us good stewards of your earth. 

Make us rescuers of floundering salamanders and floating spiders, 

helpers of honeybees and hummingbirds, 

caretakers of forestlands and rivers and oceans, 

for all of these things declare your glory (Psalm 19:1). 

In Jesus’ renewing name. Amen. 

Read Genesis 1:1-31; Romans 8:18-24.