The God Sense

I had a bit of time the other day and decided that it would be well spent on a river in search of some trout for my fry pan. It was truly a wonderful day. Though I did catch some trout I was further blessed by beauty of Gods creation. I could hear the birds singing to each other in their many different languages, beautiful songs, but songs I could not understand except for to praise God along with them. I could hear and feel the rumble of the fast moving water as it was slowly changing the landscape it flows through, around, over and in. I could smell a fresh breeze swirling around me; it brought with it the scents of spring, wild flowers mostly but occasionally an almost discreet odor of decay would intrude as if to remind me of the fallen world I live in. The colors I could see were stunning. The blues and whites of the sky and rushing water, the many different greens of the trees, grasses, moss, and bushes were staggering. The yellows, blues, oranges, violets, whites, and reds of the wild flowers and blossoms that were scattered around me could almost take ones breath away.

Take just one sense of the five God had given us and it was beautiful. All five and it was awesome. I was surrounded by the beauty of Gods creation. All this beauty in a fallen world. Imagine what awaits us in glory!

I was blessed that day to see, and feel, and smell, hear, and taste what it is that God has created. We as Christians have been blesses with a ''sixth sense'' as well. That is the ability to recognize the presence of God in all things. He is present in all of our lives. He is the creator and sustainer of all that we are aware of (all the we are not aware of too). In our busy lives all of this can be so easy to miss. Slow down and pay attention. Take some time to get alone with God. His attention to detail is wonderful.

Do not worship this beautiful creation but the One who created it. SDG!

Col. 1:15-23
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation1 under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.