God’s Marvelous Handiwork [part 1]

Our family just got back from an awe-inspiring back packing trip on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. It was awesome to get out into God’s magnificent creation and see his wonderful handiwork. I’m amazed at how many believers don’t take the time to see the beauty of God’s creation. This is the first post in a series that I will be writing to encourage you to get out and see God’s creation first hand. God has given us such lavish blessings, and yet why don’t we take time to see them? Besides giving beauty to our eyes, God’s creation also gives us an opportunity both to exercise and to see into the magnificent character our powerful God.


This world has created a false sense of beauty. We’ve said that beauty is the sexy girl with tons of mascara, in a bikini, on a magazine, in the checkout line at the grocery store. While God has created humans, and thus they are a beautiful creation, our society has taken what was beautiful, altered it, and made something revolting - sin. This paragraph may seam WAY out of place from the rest of this series, but I just wanted to make a point that God’s beauty is far better than earthly, sinful, “beauty.” I would also like to add that getting into nature usually gets you, at least partially, away from the false “beauty” of this world. It’s great to be out in the wilderness, knowing that you’re away from the bustle of people. And where there are less people, there are less temptations from the opposite sex.