Author Seth Lewis’s passion for God’s world and his Word forms the foundation for his worshipful exploration of how nature tells forth God’s glory. Peppered with astute questions and Scriptural insights, Lewis’s narrative informs and challenges readers. For example, he asks, “Have you ever considered that the reason why we feel so connected in nature is because that’s what nature is specifically designed to do? It is made to connect us to our Maker. It doesn’t use words, but it still communicates. Powerfully. It declares, proclaims, reveals and speaks to the ends of the earth—because there isn’t one tiny corner of this planet that isn’t filled up and overflowing with God’s creative wonders.”
Lewis explains that God communicates with us in two languages—creation and the Bible—because God wants a relationship with us and desires to reveal himself to us more fully. Lewis asserts that the “completeness and clarity of the language of Scripture has not diminished our need to hear God’s voice in his creation as well. … God never intended for us to choose one language and ignore the other.”
Lewis uses the days of creation as narrated in Genesis 1 as a framework to encourage readers to discover God’s handiwork, interpret it in the light of God’s word, and respond to what God is saying to us.
Replete with anecdotes about the natural world from Lewis’s childhood in Alabama and his family’s life in Ireland, The Language of Rivers and Stars acknowledges both the glories of creation and its groaning because of sin. Despite the brokenness so evident today, Lewis points to the sure hope of the new heaven and the new earth that Jesus will usher in when he returns on the clouds of heaven. With hope for today and for eternity, God’s children can enjoy, care for, discover, and ponder the mysteries of the created world and worship God, the Creator.
(The Good Book Company)