Quiet Time: Alone with My Creator

Yesterday I had a very memorable quiet time.

After church and hanging out with Crystal and her friends, I drove back up to PV to go home. As I was driving up Crenshaw about to hit Crest, my eyes stumbled upon Creation.

(the pictures get bigger if you click them!)

I am generally not your fruity nature-loving, "lets go to Yosemite to see nature and go hiking" kind of guy but something about the picture in front of me stunned me.

I turned on to Crest and soaked up the beauty of it all. In a way that I cannot express with words (but I will still try to do it some justice), the setting was beyond beautiful. The pale blue sky was painted with whispy white clouds and the evening sun was gleaming golden over everything. The air was crisp, the grass and trees were so saturated with green, and a light breeze was kicking.

I nearly veered off the side of the road because I could not help but stick my head out and admire the sheer vastness of the sky. I got home and and dropped off somethings, changed my shirt and ran back out to my car, not wanting to miss a moment of the spectacle before it got dark. Never before have I run out of my house to see nature. Pretty weird.

I drove over to Del Cerro Park and run to the outlook spot. At this point, I was very very thankful that I got a new phone because I snapped a few pictures that are pretty nice quality for a phone.

Sitting on the railing and observing the sight before me, I could not help but be amazed by the grandness of God. As I look from end to end as far as I could see, I sat and meditated on how big He is. To think that the view before me was only the slightest fraction of ocean and land and air on this Earth and that there was so much more natural beauty elsewhere on this Earth also blew me away.

For a moment I stopped looking out across the ocean and sky and looked at things close by: a large group of people chattering, a dog running by, a vast field below, birds in the air, and trees blowing in the wind. God is sovereign over every little and big thing, from a microscopic level to a universally, incomprehensibly large level. Wow...now that is power.

I felt compelled to pray, but found myself at a loss for words. I didn't know what to say; I was just awestruck. I had brought my Bible with me so I flipped to the Psalms. I'm generally not a big believer in flipping to a random page and finding "just what I needed", but because Psalms is so long and because I didn't know where to start, I flipped to a random page.

And I must say, I found just what I needed. Not only in a spiritual sense with things that I have been struggling with in my own private life, but also verses that accurately summed up my speechlessness with God's creation.

Here are a few of those verses:

"You rule over the surging sea,
when its waves mount up, you still them...
The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth;
you founded the world and all that is in it.
You created the North and the South."
-Psalm 89:9-12

After some more time in meditation, I headed home feeling so refreshed and so in love with God. I felt so secure in the arms of a mighty and powerful God. And to think that I dishonor, disobey, and disgust this amazing God. How unworthy I am of his love and how amazing his grace in showing me unfailing and unchanging forgiveness and adoration. I can't help but feel so inadequate. I wish I could be a better creation for my Creator. He is so good.


As I drove back home and watched the sun melt quickly into the ocean, my heart exclaimed with genuine joy and praise Psalm 92:4-5:

"For you make me glad by your deeds, O Lord
I sing for joy at the works at your hands.
How great are your works, O Lord,
how profound your thoughts!"