Nature Is Not God

God’s handiwork in nature is not God Himself in nature. The things of nature are an expression of God’s character and power, but we are not to regard nature as God. The artistic skill of human beings produces very beautiful workmanship, things that delight the eye. These things reveal to us something of the thought of the designer, but the thing made is not the maker. It is not the work, but the workman, that is counted worthy of honor. So, while nature is an expression of God’s thought, God, not nature, is to be exalted.MHH 235.4

“Let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.”
“In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also.
The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.”
Psalm 95:6, 4, 5.MHH 236.1

“He made the Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
And makes the day dark as night.”
“He who forms mountains, and creates the wind,
Who declares to man what His thought is,”
“He who builds His layers in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
The Lord is His name.”
Amos 5:8; 4:13; 9:6.MHH 236.2