We can experience God in an existential way through nature and His creation. It is a way to cognitively interact with something that indirectly reveals to us His beauty. Similarly it's our innate draw towards beauty that causes us to experience God in a special way through music and the arts.
[Update January 4, 2014: MY GOSH YES. I certainly worship through music and art; singing to God has always been something that makes me feel close to Him, even when I'm alone or in the car or sitting outside or anything. The Bible tells us to sing and rejoice to Him, and I am definitely chill with that. And art? Heck yes. I've spent a long time trying to find ways to incorporate my spiritual life into my artwork. Recently I have switched to architecture... What would be awesome? Designing and building churches. Bazinga.]
Newton said that to explain the forces of attraction of the universe such as the attraction of positive to negative charges, or the force of gravity, there is no better explanation than that of Colossians 1:17 -- "He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. Science can describe to us what is happening in nature but it cannot always explain how or why it functions in the ways that it does."
God's customary ways of caring for His creatures can be seen in the laws of nature, such as rain and wind and sunlight. These sometimes go unnoticed because they happen all the time. If the sun only rose once every so often, it would be much more important than how we view a sunrise now. Mankind has begun to take the majority of God's work for granted.
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