One of my favorite movies is a comedy called "Blast from the past" with Brendan Fraser. It's about a man who was raised in a fallout shelter underground.
There is a scene where Adam is walking down the street and for the first time he sees the sky.
He is looking up at it, just amazed, declaring "look at it!" and the people around him are trying to understand what he is seeing. Adam tells them clearly, "The sky! I've never seen anything like it!"
Only a little girl sees what Adam sees, the others have simply lost the wonder of how beautiful the sky is.
Psalm 19 reads,
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world. - psalm 19 1-4 (NIV)
Nature around us can inspire us to see the attributes of God if we remember this one simple fact: we are looking at His creation.
In the book of Romans, Paul tells us, " For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." Romans 1:20 (NIV)
Spring is here, those of us who ride are excited to enjoy the good weather. We see the roads others drive every day, but from a different perspective than those who travel in a cage.
I would challenge all of us this season to see His creation around us and ask "what do these wonders teach me about the living God?"
