All in the name of God.

I was inspired by Evan Dreiffus' blog entitled "Only Nature can save us", which was his reflections on Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight." I agreed with and was quite impressed by his discussion on the "religious underpinnings"of this great poem. Dreiffus, using the context of the Oxford English dictionary's definition for ministry, described nature as a "house under the rule of a minister(God)". Dreiffus' statement "...just as God breathes into and is embedded throughout nature, so too does he breathe into humans, and is therefore embedded in us" is in accordance with my take on the subject. I, too believe that there is a godliness in every biotic and abiotic thing which God has created. I challenge Dreiffus to extend his argument to hypothesize that there is not only a godliness in nature, but that every creation has been made for the glory of God. Just as the "frost performs its secret ministry", I believe that God uses his creation to reveal himself to other members of his creation and to worship him.In my perspective, God shows his diversity, his benevolence, beauty, sovereignty, love, sustaining power and awesomeness in the physical landscape, presence of the million plus species, celestial bodies, roaring rivers etc. His creation is meant to reveal him and worship him; The following text from the Christian Bible has contributed to my belief that nature has been created to reveal and worship God.



"And as He was now approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, saying,"BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD;Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."And He answered and said, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!"Luke 19:37-40

I strongly believe that we as humans are not the sole members of Nature who God has revealed himself through or who are capable of praising and offering worship to God. As, the preceeding text states "if those(human disciples) become silent, the stones will cry out". I belive all of God's creation is capable of praising him, as that is the sole reason for their existence