The Majesty of His Creation

I find it interesting that we usually only think about God's creation when we observe some spectacular or unusual feature in nature. Flying into Salt Lake City this week as someone who has spent most of his life in pancake-flat Delaware, I was in complete awe of the Wasatch mountains. To see the rise of these majestic mountains; to observe the great canyons and valleys and then to recognize that they were spoken into existence as just a piece of our Heavenly Creator's work is truly beyond human comprehension.

I've had a few other "majesty" moments in my lifetime--places like Niagara Falls, Diamond Head and the Smokey Mountains--that have made me stop in my tracks in amazement. These moments are reminders that we live in an incredibly beautiful world that is a masterpiece of the Divine Creator. My amazement then shifts to the absurdity of other belief systems that attribute the beauty and splendor of His handiwork to some unexplained scientific phenomenon that occurred by chance.

Yet to take the majesty of His creation for granted or to only recognize it during these "majesty" moments is to rob us of the awesome power of His hand. It diminishes our view of El-elyon--the God Most High (Genesis 14:22). To take time--every day--to pray and reflect on all of the many different aspects of God's creation is the essence of worship.

I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself. (Isaiah 44:24)