The Bible tells us that God’s glory is manifest all around us in creation from the beauty of the cosmos to craggy mountain landscapes. God has used many things to capture the eye and attention of mankind and to speak to their hearts and minds. Donkeys, burning bushes, wandering stars, pillars of smoke and fire, flocks of sheep, vineyards, fig trees, etc. In my life God has used a plowed field, a cardinal family, the symmetry of flowers, trees, sunsets, and other created things to attract my attention. If one has not known God’s Word and the history and traditions of God’s ways of engaging mankind, it would be easy for curious and superstitious people looking for meaning in life to make gods of things that make an appeal to their curiosity and reason or affections. I think that is how devotion to and worship of ancestors, nature, crystals and astrology, and systems and institutions crafted by man, etc. become gods- when people connect with and worship the creation instead of the Creator. Until there is knowledge of and relationship with the Creator, there is the risk of unconscious idolatry.
Idolatry and Nature
