God's Longest Speech to Humanity (Part 2)

This is a continuation, more or less, of the importance of God's longest speech to humanity, as begun in the previous post. 

Jesus was an outdoors kind of guy. He does visit the synagogues and teaches in them from time to time, of course, but he spends a lot of time outdoors, teaching from the mountains and along the river and lake fronts.

  

 And when he needs to pray to his father, he goes to the mountains. To know and wonder at God’s creation gives us opportunity to know him and become more and more aware of his perfect love for us.

As I mentioned in my previous post, God is a nature lover, and to spend time with Him in His creation is so joyful and uplifting! I often prefer to explore God’s creation more or less on my own and at my own pace, rather than with others who have a different purpose such as to get a list of things. No question I fully enjoy getting out to see such diversity, and hopefully capturing parts of nature with my camera to share in various ways. But sometimes when I am out on my own, my heart will burst into songs of praise (quietly, I should add :-) such as How Great Thou Art.

I have been fortunate my entire life, to explore so many of God’s fabulous habitat creations throughout North America and even Central America. For example:

 -the lush Carolinian Forest and related habitats at Rondeau;

 -the sub-arctic lowlands along the Hudson Bay coast;

 -the extensive grasslands of the prairie provinces;

-the wonderful tallgrass prairies of the mid-western USA;

 -the deserts of Arizona and Texas;

 -the impressive coastal redwoods of northern California and Oregon;

-the Rocky mountains of Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado and elsewhere;

   -the cloud forests of Costa Rica;

 -the Appalachian mountains of the eastern USA;

 -and more. Most of these places were ones that both Marie and I enjoyed so, so much, visiting them more than once.

 No question that the diversity and beauty of these areas are incredible, and of course there are so many other places across the globe that are equally as impressive. As much as I would like to see them in my earthly life, I also don’t want to contribute to the impacts of global transportation in doing so, especially when I know that in my heavenly life, I will have eternity to explore the wondrous beauty of the heavenly realm which probably includes multi-dimensions above and beyond what we can experience or even imagine here on earth.

 In reading about what many people who have had a near death experience and have gotten to a part of the heavenly realm, have described the beauty of that heavenly dimension which is so wondrous and impressive to the point that the human language cannot even begin to adequately describe its beauty. And that isn’t surprising, since that is God’s perfect realm, whereas the globe on which we live is far less perfect due to the way we have abused it, and the devil has likely had his hands in attacking these parts of God’s creation.

 We don’t need more wonders to examine across the globe, we just need a greater sense of wonderment with what is around us. We can look on the lawns of a nearby park, and watch a robin using the gifts God has given it to hunt successfully for worms on which to feed itself or its young. 

 We can watch the squirrels interact with each other in play, or watch them build a winter’s nest in a tree growing up in the yard in which to survive the wintry elements and have a safe place to give birth to their young. Or we can watch out the window and enjoy the beauty of a sunrise or a sunset, or a multitude of stars in the heavens. Or we can sit out in the back yard with a morning coffee, and watch a colourful moth come in to sip the nectar from a flower, as I did last July.

 If we take even a few moments to consider the magnificence, wonder, beauty and complexity of the world of nature around us which is God’s creation, just remember that it is a mere hint of the love, complexity and magnificence of the Creator Himself! Hallelujah!

We can do what the psalmist says in Ps. 23, to 'lie down in green pastures, beside still waters' and there we can discover God more intimately.

I like a quote from George Washington Carver, where he says: Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. 

and from Sleeth: We cannot love what we do not know. Get to know God's creation and you will become a friend of God.'

 

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