Monday, November 2, 2009

God in Nature

The beauty of nature should lead us toward believing that God is the divine source behind it all. I mean just watching an animal hunt, or eat or sleep and go through the natural beautiful motions that it goes through to survive should be an inspiration. As I was watching the Planet Earth DVD I thought of the story in Mathew 6 when Jesus is talking about us not worrying about what we eat or drink or what we wear because God takes care of the plants and animals so why wouldn't God take care of his own children. The movie was mind blowing wasnt it watching the glaciers and the oceans move they way they did and as questions I would argue that we should appreciate the creation of nature more than the people of the world do because to us it serves a bigger purpose than just something that happend out of nothing. Like us the trees were created to produce and the animals as well to bring life to this beautiful earth that only God could create. The fact that we are here is just a blessing. The poem we read was very deep and captured the destruction that we as people bring to this planet, he seemed very disgusted to the point of he himself giving up because he felt there was nothing left to do. Like so many people he is searching, trying to find something and bring people to this understanding. With him its not a question of what made it, its a quesition of How do we take care of it? For us I think we should ask What can we do to protect God's creation? Why aren't we caring so much about are planet I mean it is a gift from God there are ton's of things we should do. In romans 1 Paul says "8The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." I will leave it at that with a statement...Remember we do not worship nature, but the creator of nature but we should also take care of the creators creation as it is a gift to us as well..
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  1. Paul T. CorriganNovember 3, 2009 at 12:43 PM

    I like how you connected the Planet Earth DVD to the sayings of Jesus. Jesus talked a lot about nature, and spent a lot of time alone in nature. I find it particularly neat that he even knows the names for different kinds of trees. Honestly, I don't know what a fig tree or a mustard tree look like.

    (Actually, I just looked them up: Fig tree and Mustard Tree.)

    The point is, I think Jesus paid attention to nature.

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  2. Tyler MaraiaNovember 5, 2009 at 8:24 AM

    Those are beautiful trees and its really cool how he knows the names of the trees. That could be a spiritual representation of God knowing his own creation like when Jesus talked to various people throughout his life he just knew there name and even more new about them. Jesus definitely paid attention to nature, there are a few parables where nature is an example.

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  3. John LouineNovember 9, 2009 at 7:57 AM

    I completely agree with this blog, I feel that maybe because God is so full of wonders, that our simple minds can began to understand or appreciate these amazing things he has put around us.

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