Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite National Park, California
I wrote last week about how the variety we see in scenery shows us the infinite mind of the Creator of the universe. Because we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16) we have access to His infinite creativity, as well.
Highlands of the Flat Tops on the Chinese Wall Trail, Colorado
God has infinite variety in His mind, and He displayed this infinite variety in creating the trees, mountains, seashells, wildflowers, lakes, rivers, hills, oceans, and so on. Yet as we walk through the variety – for example, a meadow filled with dozens of different varieties of flowers – there is a changelessness that permeates the creativity.
Cannon Beach from Ecola Point, Oregon
God is always creative, but He is also changeless and constant.
Views from near Camp Cannonville, Utah
Even in the ways no two waterfalls are identical, there is still a constant changelessness in them – a mark of God that cannot be replicated.
Upper Calf Creek Falls, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
The seasons may change, and the appearance of the waterfall also change with the melt of snow in the spring, the dry heat and low water of summer, and the frozen icicles of winter, but even in its varying flow, it is a waterfall; it is what God created it to be.
Williams Falls, Carson National Forest, New Mexico
It’s one of the things that draws us back out to the wilderness again and again – the changelessness, the constancy. In our world that seems to delve deeper and deeper into chaos, we find the sense of constancy that God placed in the wilderness – the constancy of Himself – a comfort.
Paintbrush on Sentinel Dome overlooking Yosemite Falls, California
God is always faithful, always loving, always there for us and with us. Whether we feel we are walking in ridgetop meadows through glorious views, or tromping through a swamp where we sink with every step, God still created it, and He is no less with us in the swamp than on the mountain.
