43: #Lessons from Nature

Perhaps because I'm a Biology and Marine Science Instructor I'm continuously amazed at how nature teaches us about God. It is also interesting to see how easily Biblical Faith can be integrated into the concepts I try to present to the students. Which brings me to this post:

George Washington Carver was an award-winning African-American scientist and inventor. He is best known for his improvements to agriculture, and the many uses he devised for the peanut, e.g. peanut butter, peanut brittle, peanut oil. Carver was also the founder of Tuskegee University – a historic black college in the USA.

One day while reflecting on the Creator and His handiwork, Dr. Carver commented: “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in” (http://www.quotes4life.net/authors/g/george-washington-carver).  

Dr. Carver understood that nature’s splendor is more than just something to delight our senses. He knew that by exploring the wonders of the natural world, people could learn great spiritual lessons. 

A rainbow, for instance, is God’s assurance that He will never again destroy the earth by a flood. Even the scientific truth of the earth’s circular nature was established by God – see Isaiah 40:22.

           

However this is not a discussion about the Bible vs. Nature—it is simply to point out that one of the greatest lessons we can learn from studying the natural world is our dependence on God. Just as nature’s marvels could not exist without the Creator, we too would be nothing without Him.

Let us listen as our Creator speaks to us through nature. Let us be thankful that after completing many wondrous creations He took the time to stoop down and fashion man from the dirt of the earth—and indeed He is still working on us!!

Carver’s epitaph reads: "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world." http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver-9240299#legacy

Won't we try to do the same?