Seeing Creation During WIHL

Since I have been back from my Wheaton in the Holy Lands (WIHL) trip for a few weeks now I thought it would be good to do some reflecting.  Much of what has and will stick with me I have already blogged but a significant experience that I will not forget was seeing creation.  For me, like many of us, nature can be one of the clearest ways to see the glory and beauty of God.  And there was no shortage of this on my trip.  Here are some examples.  

(The Judean wilderness)

(The "Super Bowl" in the Negev)

(Looking towards the Dead Sea from Massada) 

(Mount Tabor from the Nazereth Ridge in Galilee) 

(The Sea of Galilee)

(A Headwater of the Jordan River)

(The Aegean Sea)

(Meteora in Greece)

(Sunset over Aegean Sea behind Temple of Poseidon) 

These pictures represent a glimpse of what I was able to see in these four countries.  They all speak to the power, majesty, and creativity of our God.  It always reminds me of Job 38.  He laid the earth on its foundations and marker of its deminsions; He gives orders to the morning and shows the dawn its place; He tells the waves where to halt; He brings fourth the constelations in their seasons.  He is amazing and He is God.  Amen.