I got to go up to the Blue Ridge Parkway with some relatives this past weekend. It was a great time, not just because the views were amazing, but because it was with people I love. Between every view was…
The Creativity of Creating the World
I heard a podcast with a famous Christian songwriter a few weeks ago. The interviewer (a musician in his own right) asked the songwriter about how he wrote songs. The songwriter summed up his thoughts with this statement: “To me,…
Understanding Nature via God
I find it interesting – though not surprising – that many of the early conservationists knew God and saw Him in creation. John Muir wrote to a friend, “Aye, my lassie, it is a blessed thing to go free in…
God Reveals Himself through His Creation
God makes Himself known through His creation – the things that He made. He said through the Psalmist, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth…
May the Lord Take Joy in All He Has Made
Everything I am will praise and bless the Lord! O Lord, my God, your greatness takes my breath away, overwhelming me by your majesty, beauty, and splendor! You wrap yourself with a shimmering, glistening light. You wear sunshine like a…
Judgement is Not the Answer to Creation’s Groans
Sometimes in traversing the wilderness, we feel its groans (see Romans 8:18-22). We see its oppression to sin, to evil, to the slavery that came when Adam and Eve sinned. It is a reality that creation is not living in…
Water Longs to be Walked On
“Romans 8:22 says that “creation groans for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God.” Nature longs to manifest the Kingdom [of God]. The earth groans for this, wanting to be healed. Even water longs to be walked on…
When the Sons and Daughters of God are Revealed
I was reading a book the other day that had little to do with the wilderness, but one of the authors took a quick side tangent that I found interesting. I’ll be spending the next several weeks discussing the quote,…
God Saw that it was Good
In Genesis 1, we can read the story of how the earth was formed, how God started with nothing and made the earth and all we see in it. There is a phrase that is repeated over and over in…
Isaiah 40
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand… Or with the breath of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket…