*EARTH - see WORLD
For Jesus "earth was crammed with heaven." He lived so close to God that everything spoke to him of God. (Barclay Commentary of Mark 2:21-2)
The visible world is designed to make known the invisible things of God. (Rom 1:20) For Jesus this world was not a lost and evil place; it was the garment of the living God. If you wish to see God, look around you. Jesus finds in the common things of life a countless source of signs which lead men to God if they will only read them right. (Barclay Comm on Mark 4:3-9)
People have often said: "We can become so heavenly minded that we are no earht good." The tragedy in the Church today is the opposite error. We have become so earthy minded that we are in serious danger of being no Heavenly good. (Heaven, p163)