NATURE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS CREATOR

I have been studying about the Kingdom of God in a class taught by Dallas Willard.  I have been enjoying it and it certainly keeps me thinking, not just about that topic but about all of my life.  He explains the Kingdom of God as “the effective rule of God over His creation”.  It’s not about heaven or what happens to me after I die.  It’s about the way I live my life now.

I love watching and listening to the natural world that surrounds me.  I look to nature as one of my greatest teachers.  One of the many things I have noticed is that all of nature exists under the effective rule of God.  It all does what it is created to do and unlike human beings like me it doesn’t rebel against God or try to manage on its own.

 It contains all Truth and beauty.  It contains God’s invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity.  Nature daily pours out speech, with no words, and whispers wisdom and knowledge of God’s law simply by being what it was created to be. 

I do well to be a student of nature, sitting in solitude in its presence and silently learning the lessons it teaches about being subject to the rule of God in His Kingdom; not worship nature but watch its relationship with the Creator.