It's so easy to walk around Colorado and miss the little things, the wildlife, the flowers, and the simple creatures that adorn our world. When Nancy and I hike early in the morning, just the two of us, we see so much more like, deer, elk, big horn sheep, fox, coyotes, bear and small creatures too. Add lots of people to the trail, along with their dogs, and noisy bikes, etc, and presto, they're gone! Then, you realize that creatures in the wild are native, and not in a zoo. They feel easily threatened by outsiders. So, you must meet them on their own terms.
In a sense, God is quiet in His creation as well as in His relationship with us. We go charging into His world trying to find Him and wanting Him to do things for us, making lots of noise, and we overlook Him, demanding satisfaction and immediate answer to prayer. Then we blame Him for not being there, yet we are the one's with a mental handicap. I Cor. 2:8f says; "the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age had understood, for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, but just as it is written:
Things which eye has not
Seen and ear has not heard,
And which have not entered
the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him.
For to us God revealed them through the spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God."
Vs.14 and 15 says; "But the natural man does not accept the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct him? But we (those who are spiritual) have the mind of Christ."
The passage goes on to say that Christians who have broken fellowship with God and His blessings can't see all of God's realities and the things He wants to reveal to them. But for those who are completely yielded to God and have surrendered their will to Him, there is no limitation to how such a person can understand and hear the mind of Christ. Ask God, "what would you have me do?" And then do it. By giving up our will and meeting God on His terms, we gain everything. It's like quietly walking through the forest, early in the morning, and waiting and listening... you see everything.
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
He made their tiny wings.
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