+DEV+ Nature Worship

Date: November 20, 2010 10:10 PM
Topic: +DEV+ Nature Worship

Nature Worship

"He [Jesus] was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made" (John 1:2-3).
Scripture Focus: Romans 1:18-25

Genesis 11 reports the building of the Tower of Babel. The purpose of this skyscraper-temple was to give the builders a high platform from which they would worship the stars and planets closer than from the ground. But God, who made the stars and planets, threw the nature worshipers into utter confusion. He divided their common language into a variety of languages and scattered them far from the construction site.

Nature worship did not end at the Tower of Babel. It manifests itself today in the extreme environmentalism that perceives all animal and plant life as sacred while it denies the existence of the all-wise, all-powerful Creator. It may take the form of astrology and send men and women scurrying to their morning newspaper to learn what their horoscope predicts for that day.

Although we should respect nature as a divine gift and therefore help to protect it, we must not worship it. Acknowledge the Creator, and praise Him for all He has made.

Insight: All nature displays the Creator's masterful design; so why live in God's beautiful world without God?