My wife and I have just returned from a 3 week holiday to South Africa to visit family. Part of our time there was spent in the Drakensberg mountains at a sports resort. It's wonderful how we can never escape the visual reminder of our Fathers presence. How majestic He is, and what would have been such a small feat of His awesome creativity is to us awesomely overwhelming. What am I on about? Well, I've developed this passion for playing golf. Not because of the game necessarily, but largely because golf courses are some of the most beautiful places to walk. Someone once said that golf is a good way to ruin a nice walk, that's funny, but I guess it largely depends on who you are walking with. You see, when I'm out on the course surrounded by all this beauty, I can't but help myself from talking to God. I can't stop myself from saying "Wow Dad" and being overtaken by this beauty created to show a mere glimpse of who He is, His beauty, and the love He has for us in that he created this beauty for us. Golf courses may be sculpted by man, but he has never created anything. God created the land for man to sculpt, and somewhere in that partnership I find a connection, a merging of our presence meeting His. This truth came into full light on the Drakensberg course, which sits at the foot of the mountains. There it is, mans sculpted beauty of what God created, and yet while the course is beautifully sculpted it still cannot touch God's creativity. For what man has sculpted a mountain so overshadowing that it fill half the sky? We are not gods, we are men. He is God, worthy of our worship, worthy of our praise, worthy of our service. What and honour to be aware of His presence. Open your eyes, look around, He is calling out to us, the display of His presence draws us to Him.
