How to Find Meaning in Life in Nature

There is a cycle of life that plays out in the world around us. Is there purpose in it? Nature seems temporal. What is the purpose of nature? Let's investigate what God's Word says about nature's purpose.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. Psalm 65:9-13 shows some examples of God's purpose in nature. It reads, "You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops. You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. The grasslands of the desert overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing." Nature is used as a provision for us.

2. For our pleasure, God has provided for us the creativity of nature as shown in Ecclesiastes 1:5-8, which reads, "The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing."

3. Matthew 6:25-30 shows how God will take care of our needs and how attentive He is to all the details of nature. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?"

Tips & Warnings

• Go for a walk outside and meditate on the words God has given you in the Bible in regards to His creation.