Sunday, July 04, 2021
Sunday Reflection: This World
Over the last several weeks, I've had the chance to see a lot of this beautiful country of ours. It takes my breath away, even the blank spaces on the map (and perhaps mostly those). The picture above is from California, if you can believe that.
I'm always surprised to find people in remote places claiming it is "God's Country," though. That idea-- that God is more present some places than other. I suppose what they mean-- understandably-- is that in the wild places the evidence of God's creation is less obscured by what man has created.
And yes, it is important to see those places, to see the raw parts of creation.
But we really have a duty to search for God everywhere. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I do love this part of Acts, where Paul talks to the Athenians and says:
From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us.
He is not far from each of us, indeed, even when we are not in those wild place.
