From the Mountains

I promised I would post some pics from my vacation to Gatlinburg TN so here you go.  We took 2 trips up to the mountains and it was amazingly beautiful to say the least.

Here I am beside one of many many small water falls we found running down the mountains.

I love watching all the rivers that flowed and it always amazed me that it never stopped coming form up the mountains.  I mean where did it all come from?

The above 2 pics were taken at New Found Gap.  The sign we read said on a clear day you could see 90 miles! 

I could not help but feel so small and minute as we drove around and stopped to take pictures.  I was totally amazed at the creation God has made.  All the beauty He created that He could come and sit among any time He likes and enjoy.  Even though God created all these amazing places on earth He still wants to know me.  I feel totally unworthy looking at His creation and it's beauty knowing He wants to a relationship with me even after I fail so many times and fall into sin.  The fact that He has all this and still sent His Son to live among us and to die so we could have eternal salvation with Him in Glory.  I had goose bumps most of the day and many times I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes as I thought all He created yet He wanted me!  I am still in utter amazement by that fact.  In fact its not just me he wants but everyone one of you as well.
Most of us know John 3:16 and can quote it.   "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
But I find John 3:17 even a little better.   "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." 
Not to condemn the world but through Him we might be saved.  Can you fathom the real meaning of this verse?  As I was going through the mountains I was amazed its not just me but the WORLD he wants to know even though He has so much beauty He can surround Himself with when we make so many things so ugly.  Out of all the beauty in the world He chose YOU I pray you find as much peace and comfort in that as I do.  God Bless!