God... Nature... Humanity
God is the Sovereign of the universe, existing supremely above all else. God is spirit (John 4:24), existing in a different realm from that of humans, who are flesh. Our understanding and perception of God, therefore, are based on God’s revelation to us through His written Word, the Bible. God cannot be comprehended; only experienced. So man as the noblest work of God, the masterpiece of the Almighty has been called to participate in the empiricism of God's nature.
To all who regard Jesus as the unique revelation of God, the unfolding of the divine life under human forms... he is the ultimate standard of moral and spiritual life, the perfect expression of the will of God for humanity, the categorical imperative with a human heart. But very many who do not hold this belief in a formulated way or who feel compelled to deny it, including an increasing portion of our Jewish fellow-citizens, will still consent that in Jesus our race has reached one of its highest points, if not its crowning summit thus far, so that Jesus Christ is a prophecy of the future glory of humanity, the type of Man as he is to be.
Christianizing means humanizing in the highest sense.
NATURE
Nature is the art of God!
It is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal, it's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - From nature, creation took place.
No man fears what he has seen grow... cos of all the plants that cover the earth and lie like a fringe of hair upon the body of our grandmother, try to obtain knowledge that you may be strengthened in life.
Have you ever imagined life without flowers, rain, sunlight, tides from the ocean, cool breeze, birds, or even waking up one morning to discover that there isn't a sky anymore?... Hew, it's scary!!! How would you have admired the moonlight if you had seen it in day light?. The Truth is, Nature It's geometrically perfect! It imbues us with this overwhelming feeling of Godliness and acceptance to every course of humanity.
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.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another... They are intertwined. Stare up the blue sky for sometime, and you will decipher something you had never seen before...it's no magic.
You will find beauty everywhere if you love nature. It's convincing and reassuring
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
There is new life in the soil for every man.
There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits... there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes, and remember that nature is our greatest restorer. God made it so!
HUMANITY
Awakened to blossom like the wild flower...
When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole.
But can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole?
In all respects, we are one humanity, one human family. Limitations arise from erroneous human beliefs, from political beliefs and world leaders who hold thinking to time, place and culture, thereby creating differences and separateness. The birthright of all mankind is to love and follow God.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. … Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.
The Unnaturalness Of Human Nature.
The ... sentiment of the equality before God of all his creatures, tends to nullify man's usual acquisitiveness. Those who have it spurn dignities and honors, privileges and advantages, preferring ... to grovel on the common level before the face of God. It is not exactly the sentiment of humility, though it comes so close to it in practice. It is humanity, rather, refusing to enjoy anything that others do not share.
In the eyes of the world, the quality of humanity confers no title to existence, nay, not even a right of sojourn. Such title must be certified by special social circumstances stipulated in documents to be presented on demand.
Sometimes, we wonder why most of the issues we face are as a result of one's mistake or deliberate action against another... We wonder if it is human or divine, or maybe human is really transcendental... Yes, the human nature itself is quite mystical. That's why
You must not lose faith in humanity...
Humanity is an ocean; I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply inter fused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
For he has given you life in Nature, to breathe and emulate the actions of the Preternatural with actuality!
God is Perfect.
Nature is Real.
Humanity is Divine!