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Worship Nature’s God, November 9
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that
dwell therein.
Psalm 24:1
.
God speaks to us in nature. It is His voice we hear as we gaze upon the beauty
and richness of the natural world. We view His glory in the beauteous things His
hand has made. We stand and behold His works without a veil between. God has
given us these things that in beholding the works of His hands we may learn of
Him.
God has given us these precious things as an expression of His love. The Lord
is a lover of the beautiful, and to please and gratify us He has spread before us the
beauties of nature, even as an earthly parent seeks to place beautiful things before
the children that He loves. The Lord is always pleased to see us happy. Sinful as
it is with all its imperfections, the Lord has lavished upon this earth the useful and
the beautiful. The beautiful, tinted flowers tell of His tenderness and love. They
have a language of their own, reminding us of the Giver.
We may look up through nature to nature’s God. In the beautiful, lofty trees,
the shrubs, the flowers, God reveals His character. He is to be compared to the
most beautiful lilies and roses and pinks. I love to look upon the things of God in
nature, for the Lord impresses upon them His character. In love to us He has given
them, and He means that we shall have pleasure in them. Then let us not worship
the beautiful things in nature, but let us look up through them to nature’s God,
and be led to worship the Giver. Let these beautiful ministries of love answer the
purpose of God, and draw our hearts to Him, to be filled with the beauties of His
character, and adore His goodness, His compassion, His inexpressible love.
God is good, and greatly to be praised. His mercies have been freely bestowed
upon us. He has surrounded us with tokens of His love. The heathen may rage and
imagine vain things, but the Lord is unchangeable. He has made the strength of the
everlasting hills to be a safe retreat for His people. He has prepared the mountains
and the caves for His oppressed and persecuted children. We may sing, God is
our refuge and strength in time of trial. He who made the towering mountains, the
everlasting hills—to Him we may look. And He will look from His high and holy
place upon those who love and fear Him....
In the things of nature we are given symbols of the kingdom of heaven. Thank
God, we have a city that is pure, whose Builder and Maker is God. That city
cannot be moved. It is as firm as the throne of God.—
Manuscript 153, November
9, 1903
. “Through Nature to Nature’s God.”
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