Appalachain Trail; Mt Webster
The Garden of God
“Sing to the LORD with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp. He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.” (Psalm 147:7–8, NIV)
The heavens and the earth were intended to be a semitransparent veil through which moral intelligences might see the glory of God (Psalm 19:1–6; Romans 1:19–20), but for sin-blinded men this veil has become opaque. They see the creation but do not see through it to the Creator; or what glimpses they do have are dim and out of focus. It is possible to spend a lifetime admiring God’s handiwork without acknowledging the presence of the God whose handiwork it is.…
With what joy the Christian turns from even the purest nature poets to the prophets and psalmists of the Scriptures. These saw God first.… Their love of natural objects was deep and intense, but they loved them not for their own sakes but for the sake of Him who created them. They walked through the world as through the garden of God. Everything reminded them of Him. They saw His power in the stormy wind and tempest; they heard His voice in the thunder; the mountains told them of His strength and the rocks reminded them that He was their hiding place. The sun by day and the moon and stars by night … recited the story of their divine birth.
Lord, may I be reminded of Your role as Creator by every created thing I encounter. Amen.
Tozer on the Almighty God : A 366-Day Devotional (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread, 2004).
Appalachain Trail; Mt Webster
The Garden of God
“Sing to the LORD with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp. He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.” (Psalm 147:7–8, NIV)
The heavens and the earth were intended to be a semitransparent veil through which moral intelligences might see the glory of God (Psalm 19:1–6; Romans 1:19–20), but for sin-blinded men this veil has become opaque. They see the creation but do not see through it to the Creator; or what glimpses they do have are dim and out of focus. It is possible to spend a lifetime admiring God’s handiwork without acknowledging the presence of the God whose handiwork it is.…
With what joy the Christian turns from even the purest nature poets to the prophets and psalmists of the Scriptures. These saw God first.… Their love of natural objects was deep and intense, but they loved them not for their own sakes but for the sake of Him who created them. They walked through the world as through the garden of God. Everything reminded them of Him. They saw His power in the stormy wind and tempest; they heard His voice in the thunder; the mountains told them of His strength and the rocks reminded them that He was their hiding place. The sun by day and the moon and stars by night … recited the story of their divine birth.
Lord, may I be reminded of Your role as Creator by every created thing I encounter. Amen.
Tozer on the Almighty God : A 366-Day Devotional (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread, 2004).