Allsedona.com made it easy for me: "Sedona is best known for its surreal landscape. Filled with dreamlike rock formations, monoliths, cliffs, and canyons, it is an adventurer’s paradise. Most of the mountains... have distinct characteristics, some uniquely named like Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Capitol Butte, Coffee Pot Rock, and Snoopy Rock."
Was God being a bit playful when He spoke these parts into being? He certainly splashed them with colors, textures and shapes like they're random strokes on an impressionist's canvas.
Photo images alone don't do justice to this real-deal magnificence.
God's glory in this part of creation is evident. Romans 1:20 "For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."
Truly a treat and an eye-opener especially for one with shaky faith.
Psalms 95:3-5 "For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. In His hand are all the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him. The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land."
So look up the mountains, the sky, the ocean. God's wondrous creation is reason enough to do a hallelujah cha-cha.
I once heard Louie Giglio preach on NASA's recording of the heavenly bodies' seeming musical cadence. He then juxtaposed those sounds with the song "How Great is Our God". Song and sounds actually jived. In sync to magnify our awesome Creator!
Which made Psalms 19:1 quite a revelation to me:
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language their voice is not heard."
No need to go far to behold His glory. It's right within you.
You and I are such wondrous creations, doctors and scientists are only just starting to unravel the intricacies of the human brain and the other complex systems synced with it.
Proof of how amazing gorgeous-dust-us are? The technologies and inventions (cars, planes, the internet, medical breakthroughs, etc.) which have made our lives a bit easier and enjoyable.
He alone therefore deserves all the glory. Not the sun. Not the mountains and their trees. Not the cows on the hills. Nor any other idol like our bank accounts and accomplishments.
Revelation 4:11 "Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power; for you created all things, and because of Your will, they exist, and were created and brought into being."
