While up in the the Northeast earlier this summer visiting some family and ministry partners, I had the opportunity to take my wife to Niagara Falls. I used to go there a lot as a kid because it is only a few hours from where my parents live and also, unlike major theme parks, it is completely free.
The falls are an awesome sight. With an average of four million cubic feet of water going over the falls every minute, Niagara Falls is the most powerful waterfall in the United States. You can literally feel the ground trembling underneath your feet from all the water being dumped over the falls!
The roar of the falls and the mist has a cleansing effect on my soul because all this amazing creation is just another very visible, very experiential reminder that God is real. He is good. And He is powerful.
It’s things like this awesome piece of creation that urge me to pause and stand in awe and wonder of God.
How can anyone look at the beauty of God’s incredibly intricate masterpieces like the rain-forests, mountain ranges, oceans and flowers and say that it all “just happened”? To say such things is completely ridiculous.
I’ve seen “art” created by hippies who were high on drugs. It looks much different from the art of renaissance masters like Da Vinci and Michaelangelo. There is no mistaking their art for an accidental spill of the paint bucket.
It’s the same with the nature. It’s beauty could not have just happened by accident, much less it’s intricacy, functionality and interdependency.
As Romans 1:19-20 says “…what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” (ESV)
The creation reveals the magnificence of the Creator. To deny the creator in the face of such magnificent art is total foolishness.