Seeing The Creator Within Creation

As we transition from seeing life from a religious perspective, toward seeing things from a purely spiritual point of view, it’s simply because we’ve chosen to look toward the things that the enlightened one was directing our attention to, instead of focusing on the messenger themselves. This response tends to draw us alongside the one providing the inspiration, and instead of concentrating our gaze upon "them," we realign ourselves in order to figuratively look over their shoulder, in an attempt to see the things they were indeed pointing to.

Everything that is clearly visible in the natural world has been orchestrated by the same creative source we call God. The information we gather in observing certain elements of nature is useful to understand the supreme intelligence that originally created it all. Our insights can serve to inform us of creation and how truth may be found within the same.

What we’re observing in nature and what we learn in the process about God isn’t religious. It’s simple reality.

Isn’t that a strange paradox? But God and all of Creation is our ever present, natural, reoccurring reality. It just so happens, mostly religious voices have served as our principle narrator for the unfolding story.

When we look at the most profound voices and their deeper discourse on truth, they almost always point in a direction that is away from themselves, unto something far greater and transcendent. Conversely, when the narratives about truth center around their discourse, the directional arrows tend to reverse and instead point back at the one who originally provided the insight. So much so, that in the reversal, their truths can become difficult to see, or even completely removed from view.

Jesus provided a teaching that centered around essential truths. What's fascinating is that many were shared against a backdrop mirroring elements of nature told with an emphasis intended to illustrate concepts of Truth and concepts of Light.

Our awakening in this modern era is to recognize both elements exist as the lens we’re to look through to bring our reality (Truth) and what is transcendent for us (Light) into focus.

By referencing the natural world throughout his teachings, Jesus presented us with the essential truths needed for a simple, concise means of understanding life. Or more importantly, what’s “necessary” to know. His illustrations sketch a picture of ourselves and clarify the source of our creation. His insights provide a very inspiring picture of what’s true about the intelligence we call God, what’s true for mankind and for all the spiritual connections found therein — mirrored in nature and very often found by simply looking into the natural world. There are many of these inspirations, centered around mountains, trees, vines, pathways, flowers and birds. Here's just a few:

“Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow [seed] nor reap [the harvest] nor gather [the crops] into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?” Matt 6:26

What then can we know as truth?

When you observe a tiny bird, you’ll understand that God provides for and sustains all of creation with great care, without preference or prejudice. Without consideration for whether there is some perceivable significance to that life or not.

”And He said, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil, yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.” Mark 4:30

What then can we know as truth?

When you look upon a tree, you’ll see that manifesting spiritual growth is an essential process for our entire life. It starts as the smallest of all seeds and over time grows into a tangible illustration that others experience as a beneficial presence.

Some people are like seed along the path. Matt 13:23..the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it.” (Mark 4:15 From The Parable of the Sower and the Seed discourse.)

What then can we know as truth?

When you see a path, it’s soil and the various forms of vegetation, you’ll understand that progress spiritually is a process, one that includes encounters with a variety of obstacles, in various circumstances, with varying results.

“The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8

What then can we know as truth?

The same way you observe the wind or breezes that blow, so it is when we manifest our spirituality. In this we learn that whenever we illustrate or radiate such Light within the physical world, the results will be seen and felt by others.

For many of us, there are special moments of awakening when we acquire a sense of how Creation exists in a manner that is very personal for us. A particular connection we encounter in one particular moment. Whether found in nature, in love, in crisis, contemplation or in witnessing a precious birth, an inner sense that connects us and draws us into our Creator. What’s profound in these instances, is that we generally view them through our own, unique lens. This actually makes perfect sense. Whether we allow and use our sensory, intuitive, intellect or "soulular capabilities," we’re all given whatever’s needed to identify the creative intelligence that surrounds us and has placed a seed of itself within us. And whatever our response is, be it large or small, we each have a certain capacity to process what we see and feel about our connection to Creation. The same instinctual way a newborn animal can identify it’s very own birth mother in the midst of an immense herd, or flock.

Why, even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So stop being afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows. Luke 12:7

What then can we know as truth?

Creation has presented each of us with a singular and completely unique retina, fingerprint and DNA strand. As such, no two of us will see, feel or exist in the world, in quite the same way.

This uniqueness exists within and all around us with duplication seldom occurring, if ever. All manner of Creation, whether a person, leaf, stone, tree, mountain or blade of grass all exist in this reality. The result of this most profound, essential Truth, is that it serves as something we all share, which exists as human kinds most profound irony:

The same truths which exist for all people, manifest within the myriad of diversity that Creation has presented us with.