“For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- His eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” (Romansn1:20 NIV)
I have been asked by some how I can be so certain in the existence of a good God, and I have asked them in return if they have eyes to see. God has woven Himself irretrievably into Nature; left His fingerprints behind to show us where He's been. His signature is smeared into the curls of the Milky Way, forever circling above the rim of the world. God has scattered fragments of Himself all about the earth like a father hides eggs in the yard before his son's very first Easter; hiding behind a tree with laughing eyes and waiting to see which of the treasures his child will uncover first.
God is crying out all around us. He is present in the breathless silence of the snow-smothered mountains; He is dancing with the sunlight that shatters on the ocean's waves; He is hiding in the decaying moss and lichen and crumbling shale in the old forgotten places in the world. No jagged mountain throws its sharp weight against the sky that is not a testament to His goodness. The entire sum of Creation, each private and individual act of nature, is God waving hello.
-- John Ortberg in “God Is Closer Than You Think”
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