5 Powerful Life Lessons We Can Learn from Nature

Every minute detail of our natural environment is saturated with the wisdom of God. There are also powerful Life Lessons From Nature that will fill us with scripts of hope and bricks of courage. From the lilies, to the great expanse of the seas, from the sand to the breeze, all of creation is endowed with the majesty of our Creator.

In our most difficult moments, the humming of the birds can lift our spirits, and in our most tumultuous fears, the cool whistle of the wind can calm our overheated souls.

As we traverse the terrains of our despair, let’s not be discouraged, but let us listen to the song of hope that nature sings us. As we hear this music, may we be enlightened with the knowledge that the voice we hear is God’s.

What the Bible Says About Nature

In the book of Isaiah, we read about the mountains and the hills breaking forth with singing, and the trees clapping (Isaiah 55:12). What do you perceive that the mountains sing about? And why is it that the trees would clap?

The writer here gives personality to the mountains and the trees in an attempt to show how they portray God in their beauty. This personification also further justifies the amazing life lessons from nature and tells us of the glory of its Creator.

For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

– Isaiah 55:12

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There is no doubt that the life lessons from nature is a deliberate work of God to empower us with the fuel we need to go on. The birds never cultivate the land, yet in their natural habitats they never go hungry. This truth is the same with the cattle, the fish, and the list goes on.

All this show the importance of the natural environment and why God made it. The marvelous Life Lessons From Nature can greatly add value to our lives and we should seek to learn them.

I believe that God made everything in its season for a specific reason. I also believe that one of the reasons why God made the natural environment is to demonstrate to us His great love and his great principles.

Let us take a look at some of the powerful “Life Lessons From Nature,” and let’s discover the value they seek to add to our lives.

5 Powerful Life Lessons From Nature.

1. Birds Teach us the Power of Brokenness.

I often sit in the silence of the shrubs, and listen to the music of the birds. When God made birds, He must have known that they would sing such melodies of hope, that would serenade us and encourage us to go on.

Birds will not only sing us songs, but birds demonstrate to us the value of brokenness. Perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn from the birds, is their ability to turn broken branches into a beautiful home. We will most often focus on the bird’s ability to sing. If we look further and deeper however, we will also see that birds can teach us perhaps the greatest lesson we can ever learn.

Birds teach us that we can harness brokenness to create beauty.

Consider the great impact of brokenness on our lives, and also consider the indelible scars it can leave on us. What if we used our brokenness in a way that is beautiful. Birds will pick up broken branches from all around them, and they will fit these branches together to create a home for their offsprings.

Broken Branches Secure The Future of the Birds

The significance of offsprings is that without offsprings there can be no future for the birds. Imagine that the future of the birds is supported by brokenness. If we should learn this great spiritual lesson, and change our perspectives when it comes to brokenness, we can create life in our most difficult times.

We can all start to look at our brokenness through spiritual lens. That way, we can see that brokenness is often a prerequisite to wholesomeness. At the point of our brokenness, we can get rid of the unwanted branches of our lives, and we can harness the fruitful and productive ones. That way, we can have a structure that will support a future full of hope.

2. The Ants Teach Us The Power of Teamwork

The great strength of the Ants is teamwork. They find great pleasure in working together to achieve a common objective. A single ant can achieve so much, but when they come together as a colony, they do wondrous things. I often see the Ants transporting objects multiple times their size. A single Ant wouldn’t be able to do this, but a colony an Ants can achieve great things.

In the Bible, God taught us the value of teamwork. In Genesis, the Bible documents that the whole earth spoke one language and the people decided to build a tower to reach the heavens. God didn’t want this, so He confounded their language so they couldn’t understand each other. God’s justification was that if the people came together in one accord, there is nothing they won’t be able to do.

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis 11:6

This is the same principle of the Ants. When Ants work together, in one accord, speaking one language and having one objective, we see their strength. They build massive structures to support both their future and their livelihoods.

The Scripture says that a house that is divided against itself cannot stand. Consider if the Ants were not united. Would they be able to do what they do. This shows us the power of unity and why we should come together in order to achieve our goals.

3. The Chinese Bamboo Teaches Us to Never Give Up

One of the great requisites of endurance is the ability to Never Give Up. Never giving up requires patience and the proclivity to go on no matter what. When the storms come, we must be able to see the storms as buffers, not limitations.

If you have heard of the Chinese bamboo Tree, then you might have also heard of its growth process. This particular bamboo tree must go through a very specific process in order to grow to its true potential. The Chinese Bamboo Tree must go through years of dormancy, in order to reach true potency.

Like any other plant, the Chinese bamboo tree will require water, sunshine and soil in order to grow and to develop. After the Chinese Bamboo seed is planted, in its first year, there are no visible signs of any growth activity. At this point it may seem as if the bamboo seed has died. The second year, after the bamboo tree continues to receive water and nourishment there is still no visible signs of growth.

In the third and fourth year, after years in the ground, still nothing happens to the bamboo tree that was planted. After five years however, we see one of the great miracles of plant growth. At the end of four long years of watering and caring for the bamboo plant, it finally emerges from the ground. In just six weeks, it will reach an average height of 80 feet.

Patience Precedes Purpose

Reaching this height will enable the Chinese Bamboo to fulfill its great purpose of supporting surrounding life. It will be able to provide shade, a home and also stability to soil structure. Another purpose is to teach us this lesson we are now learning, to be patient in the drought. It’s not that the Bamboo tree took 6 weeks to grow because in the first four years, the Bamboo tree was establishing a firm foundation.

Often God keeps us growing on the inside, when the outside seems Chaotic. Don’t be dismayed. It is when we die in the flesh, that we grow in the Spirit. Whether growth or whether pruning is taking place, we should always find rest in the fact that, with God, it will be well.

As you go, may you look away from the dormant aspects of your life, and may you see the potential of God in you. More importantly, may you Never Give Up!

4. The Caterpillar Teaches Us The Beauty of Change

Change will restructure what we think we know as reality. It can both beautify and demolish us, depending on its impact and how we view it. Regardless of the impacts of change or how we view it, change is inevitable and change happens to us all.

Perhaps the caterpillar can teach us a thing or two about change. The caterpillar is the epitome of change. At some point, it will stop eating, hang upside down from a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon or molts into a shiny chrysalis. While in the solitude of this protective casing, the caterpillar radically transforms its body, eventually emerging as a butterfly.

This is a great mystery but this is also profound change. Consider the beauty the butterfly adopts, as it finds its being through its predecessor. What was once wingless and limited, now becomes winged and expanded. What was once of a few colours, is now polished with a beautiful array.

The Butterfly is a very special creature among us. Some people will photograph their beauty all day long, while others will just watch then as they play with the flowers. What we should note also is that Butterflies are very important pollinators. Due to their mobile nature, they are able to buffer the pollination process, which is very essential to all lifeforms.

Let Change Take Course

You might be going through change. Perhaps change seems ugly for you as well. The thing about change is that it is often only fully recognized after it happens. In the process, you might be in your own shiny chrysalis. Beauty might be taking place on your inside, yet all we see on the outside is dullness. Don’t lose heart, and never give up. Wait on change, and ensure that it happens.

Like the caterpillar into the butterfly, let us be transformed from the earthly nature of the caterpillar, to the heavenly nature of the butterfly. In other words, let us be transformed from the place of sin, into the measure and the stature of the fullness of Christ, a heavenly man. May we be like the butterfly, who welcomes change, and makes the most out of it.

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5. Trees Teach Us The Importance of a strong root system

Some tree roots can grow meters in the ground, while some might just grow a few feet, yet all trees have roots. In fact, roots are just a part of trees and not the other way around. Don’t you think we should all be like trees? With a strong foundation as part of who we are??

Trees with deep roots can endure some of life’s most terrible storms. This is because roots provide support. In a calm day, we might not realize the value of our roots, but when the storms blow, we will fully appreciate the value of deep strong roots.

In the parable of the sower and the seed, the seeds that didn’t fall on the soil couldn’t grow deep roots and as a result they withered.

And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew 13:6

The important lesson here is that a firm foundation is very important. Jesus Christ is our foundation and the Bible admonishes us to plant our roots on Him. This way when the storms of life come, we will not be blown away. Having a strong foundation will make us like the tree planted by the river, whose leaves never wither due to constant feeding from the river.

I pray we will be like the trees, to plant our foundation with deep roots, that we may be firm in all our ways.

Let's Conclude

As we conclude, let us never forget the wonderful lessons that nature teaches us. Let us learn from them, and let us allow these lessons to add value to our lives. God purposely created all things for His glory, and the Bible says that the Glory of God is man.

In you most difficult moments allow the cool whistle of the wind to calm your spirit, and enjoy the music of hope that nature sings us. God Bless You!