All things bright and beautiful

For the longest time I didn't understand how people could love a beautiful sunset without being awestruck by the goodness and beauty of God. To me, an awesome sunset is a testament to God's faithfulness, his creative whim at making things simply for the sake of them (why make a sunset? the sun can set just as well without the fanfare of colour), and just a indescribable sense of the goodness and beauty of all creation.

And then I realised that I only think this way because I interprete the world through a biblical worldview, Bible spectatcles, so to speak, and that it is because of the constant reading and re-reading of Psalms, where the "heavens declare the glory of God" and "day after day" pour forth speech; of Isaiah where the mountains and hills burst forth in to song, and the trees will clap their hands; of the Gospels where Jesus said that the rocks would cry out in praise if we were to keep silent; that subconsciously a worldview is formed about nature.

It is interesting that for others things, for example the sinfulness of mankind, the redemption by Christ, etc., I can take off these glasses and see as a non-deist does. I intrinsically understand what it is like to have a headonist worldview -- it makes sense to me. But I cannot take off these Bible spectacles concerning nature, and try as I might, I cannot understand nature apart from God. It is an interesting phenomenom...