This past weekend, we spent an afternoon in the wilderness, outside Pagosa Springs. Breathtakingly beautiful!
When we encounter God in his word and through prayer, we worship. When a friend reflects him to us, through offering us grace or words of truth spoken in love…we are in awe of him and drawn closer. God being reflected in his creation draws us to worship. As you behold Him in the grand vista’s he’s made, the natural response is to worship, to come closer to see who and what is the one like-who did this?
The Bible is full of verses about the whole earth being full of His glory. “The heavens declare the glory of God”-Psalm 19.
“For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.”-Psalm 95:3-5
“Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”-John 1:3
“Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens… When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?”-Psalm 8:1, 3-4
” Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty ; the whole earth is full of his glory.”- Isaiah 6:3b
You don’t have to go far, nor look too hard in southwest Colorado, to be in complete awe.
In fact people from all over the world travel here, to take in the beauty. You can’t help but stare, stand silent in amazement, point out things to those you are with and double your joy by sharing in it together.
Encountering God, beholding him in nature, feels easy. You can’t miss him; The one who made all this beauty, the intricate details, every scent, every little creature, every grand vista, who causes the sun to set. It’s an invitation to come close to Him, to get to KNOW him. The one capable of all of this grandeur, the one who spoke this all into being. When we truly see, we can’t help but linger, stand in amazement of who he is, jaws drop as we are blown away by him. We can’t help but tell those near us or in our lives about Him.
The smell of fresh pine, the cold air hitting your face-turning your nose and cheeks pink. Old mans beard brightly drapping the branches. The sound of ice falling off as the afternoon sun hits it, crunching of the hardpacked snow beneath our feet. The afternoon glow, illuminating things you would otherwise not see. This was all made by him, for His glory and draws us to know him.
The one who made all things, made us. He made us to bring him glory by being in relationship with him through Jesus.
RachelWall 