Does the Word of God Deal With Oil Spills?

Thoughts from Pastor Jim DeVore during prayer time.


What does your church; the people of God do, to bring light into darkness that is so dark that it no longer looks like darkness?

D. Krzyzopolski

This morning the news spoke of the Gulf Oil Spill and the company BP responsible.  200,000 lawyers gathered to discuss how to litigate the situation.  Everyone is lining up for lawsuits, from restaurant owners, tourist attractions, and excursion boats, whatever.  Quote “This is the worst spill at the worst timing.”  In other words, it comes right before the summer tourist season.  Like there is a good time for 11 people to die and this massive of an oil spill.

The problem is that the mentality is not how will we survive and move on.  The mentality is that somebody has to pay for this.  There is no such thing as an accident and forgiveness.  It is no longer one for all; it is really all for one.  This response will only spread strife, discrimination, selfishness, distrust, jealousy.

Everything else is situational ethics.  If we rescued the automobile and banking industry because of what it caused the economy, then why not rescue BP and the surrounding communities?

Who do you trust, the economy?  It will pick up for the summer tourist season and we’ll make it.  You can always count on the tourists.

The oil industry – They provide good paying jobs, oil to run the economy, security and $$.  We can trust them.

The government – they will always find a solution and come to our rescue.

God’s response.

Does the word of God deal with oil spills?



Christian, don’t be angry and seek revenge with with BP and think your offering to God is a blessing to Him.

How should BP handle lawsuits?



Imagine how run over you would be if you handled it this way.  Imagine how quickly things would be resolved, and how free you would be of the situation.  Maybe not financially secure, or rich, but free.

Here’s the problem


We have wrong solutions because we have bad vision.  The light we use to light our lives is the darkness of the world’s thinking.

Here’s the solution.


If BP is not the enemy, or even if he is the enemy, then I come along side and help him.  I pitch in, and not pitch at.  Just imagine how “run over” we would be if we lived like that.  Maybe being run over by people is better than being run over by God!

We the church need to see the value of the word of God and trusting in him.  But we will only trust God as much as we actively pursue Him.  The light we pursue will be the light that guides.  Oh, that the light we pursue would not be the “light” of the world for “how great is that darkness!”

Do not put the Lord your God to the test, but . . . Psalms 34:8 NIV 8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Notice all of the active verbs in this passage.


D. Krzyzopolski

What about it Psalm 1, what are the promises there for a man who actively seeks God?  I dare you, “taste and see that the Lord is good. “He’s good in the first century, and in the 21st.  His word is good at the beginning of time, until the end.

Hebrews 13:8 NIV 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.