Different Views

To talk about holy revelation taking place midst and through the creation might be a bit frightening to some who fear that such thinking will lead to a kind of spirituality which ends up making a tree into God.  And while there have been those who ended up in the throes of pantheism, it is also true that God intends for us to experience both His voice and His presence in and through the creation which He has so graciously put around us.   In the first chapter of Romans we hear the Word of God declaring,  "Ever since the creation of the world His eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things He has made."  (Romans 1:20)

 

Of course, everyone has a different view of the creation.  No two of us see and experience it exactly alike.  The view of creation here on the farm is far different from the week long view experienced some years ago when it was viewed mostly from the fourth floor of a hospital room.  On the farm I walked among the trees; there I looked out to see the tops of trees below me.  Everywhere we go with eyes to see, the creation of God is seen differently. 

And even as the creation is seen differently by each one of us, so is our experiencing the Holy One who reveals Himself in the creation around us.  Of course, a part of what makes that experience different is the unique filter which fits within the scope of our own individuality.  It is a filter which is both given to us by the Creator and shaped by Him through the set of experiences granted to us on the journey.  How any one of us knows the presence of God and the sound of His voice has to do with the uniqueness of who we are.  They is no need to envy another.  There is no need to become a copycat.  The God who brought us into being will reveal Himself to us through the creation in ways which fit the relationship He has carved out with us.