All Nature Speaks

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. (Psalm 19: 2, 3)

I want us to look at communication, especially inanimate communication.

Do you realize that in creation there is no silence?

Let me give an example.

One day my wife and I were walking and birds started chirping noisily.

My wife told me that there must be a cobra nearby. As she was telling me I saw a cobra crossing the road and tried to show her but none was able to inform the other as we were busy passing the information we each had. By the time she heard what I was saying the snake had already disappeared into the grass.

My wife had been taught to listen to birds. She was therefore able to ‘see’ by listening.

Have you noticed that the person closest to nature can access more from nature than the rest of us, from security to medicine?

But I want us to look at inanimate objects to get my point across. I know I have written elsewhere about money speaking and so will not repeat it.

Let me use vehicles to set us off. I am using Kenya as my context.

The Subaru is not the fastest car around. Yet why is it that it is rare to see one not speeding? And why is a Probox always driven badly? And have you ever seen a Mercedes Benz being driven carelessly?

What makes a driver change when he takes a different car?

And I noticed the same in parking lots. Particular vehicles have drivers being impatient and inconsiderate, even rude to attendants, even in church.

I suspect that the makers do ‘something’ in the process of their manufacture to ingrain particular messages in the vehicles they make, whether knowingly or not.

The vehicle will therefore produce the actual vibrations (their language, simplified) once a driver starts their engine. Then the driver’s body responds to those promptings to drive the vehicle as per the instructions.

I recently watched a video of a man who arranges stones in gravity defying ways and the interesting thing is what he said he uses to do so, he listens to gravity. In short, gravity instructs him to do those arrangements.

Of course we hear herbalists talking about listening to plants as they are looking for herbal concoctions to treat diseases.

A friend recently told me why he stopped burning charcoal and left the trade altogether.

He was doing it in Maasai land and a mzee explained and even showed him how that trees curse the one who destroys them.

He then looked at the many people in that trade over the years and realized that none of them make it. Incidentally, even the few who make it have their houses get destroyed by fire.

How does a tree curse someone if it does not speak?

Evidently it speaks. But it takes keen ears to hear.

God created man to have dominion. And that dominion meant issuing orders and hearing responses from the subjects, even if it is a ‘yes, sir’.

We lost it when we decided that nonverbal communication is not communication because we then lost the beauty of the harmony of a cooperative nature.

Beyond that, we become dumbfounded when our bodies and souls respond to those voices as I have mentioned about cars and money.

Of course we know that night clubs and discos speak so loudly in their language that preempts their customers into rioting beyond reason. As I have said elsewhere the sights and sounds are the sources of those voices. And drinking dens have lights that say, drink, drink. And it is confirmed by the fact that they are unable to stand when they get out of those dens. Or do you not realize that people lose control once they get out of the den since the voices stilled?

However, not only does all of nature speak, it also hears.

Remember Joshua placing a rock as a witness of Israel’s vows? Remember Jesus saying that if children kept quiet stones would cry out?

Or don’t you wonder why wickedness condemns a land to barrenness and why a return to God reverses that trend? Remember God Himself talking about a land spewing out its inhabitants for their wickedness?

Walls have ears is a statement we make without realizing that it is actually true.

I remember an experiment I read about two plants in the same environment. One was fed with good words whereas the other was fed with insults. The one fed with good words thrived while the other shriveled.

But nature is not always passive. It was created to harmonise with our dominion if it is in line with all creation.

That is why greed destroys the environment. There is enough for everybody on earth even if we filled it with people as God ordered. But there is not enough for just one man’s greed because he must overreach to ‘finish’ for the rest. And that is something nature resists.

That is why people have lived in forests with trees and animals harmoniously for eons. Yet now everything seems to resist us because once one part of nature is unsafe, nothing is safe. Once hunting was not a problem because people killed an animal for food and clothing. But now a two ton animal can be killed for a 10kg horn or for the fun of it.

Nature will resist that.

People in the past cut trees for wood and timber and nothing was wasted or hoarded. But now we can clear a whole forest to export timber without caring for the other beneficiaries of those trees. There are animals and worms and plants that fed on the shade in that forest that will die, leaving a curse on the tycoons who destroyed their habitat and their accessories.

Greed is a most destructive sin that nature resists in its own way.

But there is another sin that is probably more destructive. It is the sin of acting against nature the way it was created.

I am talking about homosexuality. Homosexuality is not just a sin against God. It is actually a sin against nature. And that is something all of nature vigorously resists. Students of history will tell you that probably the one common trait of most powerful empires prior to their fall was homosexuality in its top echelons.

Homosexuality defiles nature and is one trait that will give a certainty of a fall of a power since all nature will unite to fight it.

Another one is incest and for a similar reason. Nature operates in such a way that the alpha male must be replaced by the time his daughters reach maturity. And the incoming alpha kills all the babies for that reason though their reasoning is different.

Again nature will unite to fight that vice in us.

One other common cause of the fall of kingdoms is oppression, especially of the vulnerable.

But the backdrop of all this abomination is one very frequently touted word, self; or self-love as our generation puts it.

Simply put, a person places themselves at the centre of the universe. Everything and everybody must bend to their slightest whim, especially if they can afford it.

You shall be as God …, is the killer temptation from Eden to this day and age. It is the same desire that drove the devil from God’s presence.

We are not the reason God created us. And nature knows that.

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Colossians 1:16)

That is what we fight when we shift the focus to self.

Why do marriages collapse? The main reason is that there are two gods competing for a very limited space and are unwilling (for the same reason) to cede even an inch of their territory for the institution of marriage or wellbeing of their children.

Nowadays it is common to hear of people who dated for over five years being unable to stay married for a few months, sometimes even a single month. We hear of people getting married and divorced many times. And nobody seems ready to understand why. Even homosexuality is an offshoot of that self-love denomination. One gets burnt by a proper and God-sanctioned marriage and thinks getting married to the same sex is the solution. It is actually an abomination that all of nature will unite to fight against.

Sadly, it not only in the secular that we behave as the centre of focus.

In the past, a singer was good when he could sing with others. A solo singer always sought a group to sing with.

Not anymore. Nowadays people use choirs to expose their ‘gift’ after which they fly off to solo careers.

And it is not only in music. Preachers of all shades are always looking for the break that will catapult their ministry into fame. Then they will become lords of their kingdom with everybody else serving them.

Sadly, many are using the internet for that purpose.

I of course know that there are those with a genuine need to take the Gospel to the nations. But like Paul said, whatever the motives the Gospel is preached though many are just preaching a gospel with no teeth.

Self-love will drive us straight into the enemy’s clutches as its purpose is to maximize our desires as opposed to God’s will’

Very few believers pray with God’s will as their objective. Very few give because God commands it. Few appreciate ‘worship’ unless it makes them feel good.

That explains why a minister can openly turn his back on everything he has been preaching and teaching and openly confesses his marriage to another man after divorcing his wife of decades. His focus in ministry was self.

What is my conclusion?

All nature will unite against us if we take our eyes from God and His Christ.