Created Nature - Art with Heart

Although nature overwhelms the minds of all humans, it invokes a different response from a Christian and a non-believer. A ‘created’ nature invites a response of praise in a Christian. An ‘accidental’ nature silences the non-believer to his own finite theories.

Christians behold nature with a sense of awe towards its Creator. Behind the vastness of a created nature, is the Source who have carefully and thoughtfully designed and engineered from the smallest particle to the greatest structure in this universe. Every known or unknown thing, found or yet to be discovered, understood or simply beyond human comprehension, has its identity with the Creator. The “wealth” of nature’s beauty never runs out (William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud") and divine beauty of God’s creation is immutable and perfect ( Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty"). 

Non-believers on the other hand, still because of their spiritual being, may worship nature but with a sense of fascination (non-attributing), appreciation (mere feelings) and perhaps even entitlement (self). Since no one is responsible for what and how things exist, everything is therefore a fixture, without a Creator.

Through the eyes of a Christian, nature reveals Power, Provision and Purpose. “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. ^9a The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. (Gen. 2:8-9a. NIV.)

If nature can speak (and it does communicate), it would say, “Bow to the One who said, “Let there be” and it was so. Honor the One of whom the breadth you borrow, o man. Doeth in reverence the work He in you hath purposed. For stay you must but a while, and go you will one day, to Him a home prepared.”

Works Cited

1. Supplemented Material, William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely  as a Cloud”, page 4. 

2. Supplemented Material, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, page 6.