Hurray! It’s officially summer! Don’t you love getting back to nature in the summer months? In the spring our senses are tantalized with the emergence of green grass, birds chirping, and flowers budding. But in summer, we can enjoy all those things and more in warmer temperatures. It’s a wonderful thing.
In the outdoors we cannot only connect with nature, but with our living God as well who shares his creation for all to enjoy. Spending time outdoors allows us to reconnect with our Creator using our senses of smell, sight, hearing, sound, and touch. However, to engage these senses, it helps to step away from all distractions and be still and silence the things that distract us from communicating with God. Silence those who intrude, calm ourselves in the sacred stillness of the divine, study his Word for guidance, and with true devotion focus our attention on him.
There is tremendous value in spending quiet fellowship with God. Are you uncertain about God’s will for your life? Spend quiet time with God out in nature and engage your senses in the light and warmth the sun. Feel God in the cool breeze and bask in the sights and sounds his creation. It’s essential to be alone with God, away from the distractions of daily life where the world cannot interfere and where the opinions of others cannot reach you. Have the courage to wait in silent expectation, even when everyone around you is insisting on your immediate action. If you do these things, the will of God will become clear to you. You will have a deeper concept of who God is, having more insight into his nature and his heart of love.
Look for God’s guidance in the unrivaled gift of nature. It will be a unique spiritual experience, a precious eternal privilege, and the rich reward for the long hours of waiting for God to speak in your life.
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” – Isaiah 30:21
