The Bible is Not the Only Place God Speaks to Us
The Bible is central to our relationship with God. Without it, we cannot know him, even as we cannot know each other without words. But Scripture is not the only way God communicates with us. Even in human relationships, nonverbals like facial expression, tone of voice, and physical touch, enhance verbal communication. In addition to this, the roaring success of the “love languages” super-ministry empire lets us know that there are even ways of communicating beyond these.
So too God communicates with us every day through his creation. He is constantly showing himself to us in our living experience, through the sights and sounds, and through the good and the bad. He speaks to us in the world around us, and in the good gifts which he has given us to enjoy. The Reformed tradition has called Christians to read both of God’s two great books, the Book of Scripture, and the Book of Creation. Why? Because The God of the Bible is the God of nature.