Mt. Hood from the Timberline Trail near the Vista Ridge Trail, Oregon
I read a beautiful quote about the wilderness the other day. The author said,
When God created the earth, He put so many delightful things in it because He stocked it from heaven. Right? So He’s filled the earth with His joy, so His whole creation is joyful.
Wildflowers along the Lily Mountain Trail just outside of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
That’s why sometimes when you look at a sunset there’s just something that rises up within you like joy. You see an eagle flying and it’s like, oh man, that’s brilliant [American interpretation: that’s incredible!]
Sunset at Holden Beach, North Carolina
There’s something in you that wants to applaud creation, and the reason is because God stocked the whole of the earth with delight. It’s everywhere.
The Triad from near Cascade Canyon in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
I love the thought of God filling the earth with delight and delightful things. He created the world for His pleasure, or His delight, (Revelation 4:11) and we get to experience the delight he put into it.
The Cascades from near the Hidden Lake Lookout, Washington
People sometimes say that they have “touched heaven” when they have experienced something extremely delightful and awe-inspiring, like a beautiful sunset. They don’t know just how close they have come to the truth – because while there won’t be sunsets in heaven (Revelation 22:5), the same God who created the earth is also in heaven building a place for us (John 14:2-3).
Sunrise on the Electric Pass Trail, Colorado
If all all-encompassing God of heaven and earth can take delight in His creation, even in this fallen world, than it really must be delightful. It is our joy, our choice, to enter into the delight He placed in His creation – and with the Holy Spirit inside of us, we can see and experience the delight in even the smallest detail of what God has made.
