The Spring is coming. God’s creation is coming to life all around us. The lovely sunny days we have enjoyed lift our spirits as we anticipate the longer, warmer days ahead. The snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils are flowering, and the buds are on the magnolia trees. People are out walking and cycling; children are playing. Seeing nature coming to life points us to God our Creator. Long ago David wrote, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”

God is light. His first creative command was, “Let there be light!” God’s character is pure and good and true. In him there is no darkness at all. He is transparent. He has wonderfully revealed his character and loving purposes for the people of this world in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son. He calls us out of the moral and spiritual darkness of this world “to walk in the light, as he is in the light.” Life lived in fellowship with God brings great joy.

God is the Giver of life. Through the winter months his creation has lain dormant, but now it is stirring to life again. God is the source of all life and has made this little planet on which we live to abound with life. Earth stands out in stark contrast to all we know of the vast universe around us. It seems that Earth is one of God’s special creations. God’s Son, Jesus, came into this world that we “may have life and have it to the full.”

God is beautiful and is the source of all beauty. He has wonderfully adorned his creation with beauty. The hills and the valleys, the rivers and the sea, the flowers and the trees, the animals, the fish and the birds, the great variety of people from all nations, reveal the mind of God, who “makes everything beautiful in its time.” Atheistic societies build ugly concrete blocks and force people into their “one size fits all” mould.

God created us to love and worship him. One hymn writer reminds us of how wonderful God is: “How beautiful, how beautiful, the sight of Thee must be, thine endless wisdom, boundless power, and awful purity. Yet I may love Thee too, O Lord, almighty as Thou art, for Thou has stooped to ask of me the love of my poor heart. Father of Jesus, love’s reward, what rapture will it be, prostrate before they throne to lie and ever gaze on Thee.”