We will not be short on mercy to others if we believe we have been saved by overwhelming mercy. Faith also works to heal our relationship with the material environment. By complying with sensible breathing, drinking, eating, exercising, resting and moderate habits, we may add three or five or ten years to our lives. God is so unselfish that He wants our service not for Himself but for our brother. Those who are righteous by faith will strive to be righteous in practice.
Righteousness embraces all the relationships of human existence.
It means fulfilling the obligations of all relationships. Earth and the animals are man's responsibilities. God gave him dominion over the earth to act toward it as God would act toward it, to care for it as God's gift. The God who notices the sparrow fall and who clothes the lily with beauty is not indifferent to the way we treat the earth. Holiness is closely related to wholeness.