Tracing Creation...

Different things bring people different feelings and some things can initiate a connection to God much easier than others. At times, often even, the "thing" in question is bound in nature as nature has the finger prints of God all over. It only makes sense, no?

Recently, someone mentioned how being on a beach can bring them so much closer to God and how it sparks the remembrance of the only true creation. This is in comparison (to me at least) to other natural beauties such as the Grand canyon or certain mountain ranges. Features on the earth that are vast and magnificent certainly do charge and reveal that connection I would have to agree, but as I thought about it (imagining it in my mind) I realized how utterly true those words were.

The ocean is without question a division of land and sea as was once recorded in creation. Granted things were not always in the arrangement that they now are, it is still true. (A product of the Flood to my understanding as are the canyons.) To stand and look out into a disappearing horizon of water and sky helps point to that time long ago. The scale and depth of it all. The power it must have taken to literally will it into being. One who looks, sees, and acknowledges it can't help but be drawn to a closeness with its designer. A God that made you, me, and an immensely complex world full of laws and designs for us to inhabit until we finally go home.

When I go to the beach this year with the youth group I will try to remember to bring this thought up. Maybe we can spark a few imaginations or appreciations peering out onto the horizon...listening to the waves.