Rinse Recycle Refill 💦♻️

As a child growing up in Jamaica back in the day, you would most definitely be familiar with the term: "Bottle Police".

This is the designation given to someone who would either habitually or just in the moment (e.g. during or at the end of a party) go around and arrest used drink bottles with the intention of returning them to the original source for refilling, for a price paid per bottle.

We may not have called it that back then, but this was an early act of recycling that was culturally embedded and acceptable.

Jamaica over the years has come a far way in terms of caring for our environment, something very important for us living on a relatively small island.

Environmental studies are now included in schools and universities, as a country we've banned some plastics and started to embrace recycling on a wider scale... and not just for glass drink bottles.

This is of course an excellent direction to be moving in, because we are all called to be good stewards of what we have been blessed with on this Earth.

We've seen the consequences of shirking this God-given responsibility in our eroded beach fronts, garbage-filled waters and plastic-filled fishes... fishes we end up consuming by the way.

As a species, we have to learn, to do better and most importantly we have to pass on the knowledge that we gain, to the next generation to keep the progress going.

In the Kingdom of God, we should especially know the significance of the stewardship that our Creator has bestowed upon us.  He has called us to rule over the Earth and take care of it... and of course, if you truly know God, you know that "rule over" for Him doesn't mean "taking advantage of", "abusing" or "lording over".  It means to "lovingly take care of".

If we can hold that in mind and apply this mandate to the full breadth of our stewardship, then we will realize that this applies not only to the natural resources of the planet, but the human resources as well.

God calls us to actively collect souls that have been left used, empty and discarded and to bring them back to the Source where they can be refilled and re-purposed.

We should especially look out for and reach out to the Youth of the next generation and properly steward them.  That means lovingly taking care of them, teaching them the Godly things that we know and have learned, so that that knowledge can mature into wisdom, which they can then in turn pass on to the generation after them.

This is how we reach, teach and win the world. 🌍  A larger portion of a generation at a time.

Rinse the lost vessel of the world's sticky residue.
Recycle that earthen vessel by getting it back to the Source.
Refill that vessel and get it back out there to accomplish what God intended.

If we can reach 20% of this generation, who then, in turn, reaches 23% of the generation after them... and so on and so forth, before you know it... we'll make it to the point where we attain a critical mass of believers in a generation spreading the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for all to be Blessed by.

That's the simple formula, the simple plan in which we can all participate.  It's not insurmountable, it is very doable, so let's get to it... say it: Rinse, Recycle, Refill.