What does nature tell us about God?

Can we tell what God is like by looking at nature? What will it tell us of God if we do? Let's look at it from a human perspecitvie first if I look at a chair what I can tell of its maker? I can tell the chair had a design which the maker put together. I might also ascertain from looking at the chair, that the maker was a good craftsman. However I cannot tell whether the maker was loving or cruel to his family. In other words I cannot tell from looking at the chair the personality of the maker. I would need other things and other sets of knowledge. I might need to meet the maker themselves. We meet God, through the Bible. It tells of our journey of understanding God. We meet God through Jesus. We can experience God in our daily lives. So while looking nature may point us to God it does not take into a relationship with him or give us clues to what he is like in any great detail.

New Year Resolutions

We are now in 2012. I am sure some of us have made new year resolutions. It is often our intention to keep them but how long before we stop going to the Gym or starting eating chocolate again? We all need discipline and help. To be a disciple of Jesus Christ is not easy to do on one's own. We can waver as we need the support of other Christians to build us up and we need Jesus. We get that through looking through the pages of the New Testament and especially the gospels to help live as he would have us. We can also pray for the strength and courage to follow Christ in todays world.