God in everything; God in nothing

Every bit of coherent revelation we receive from God, or glean from nature, dwells primarily in the Biblical revelation of God infallibly preserved in the written texts. In other words, the information may be gleaned from nature, or impressed/communicated by God to a soul, or read from a passage and applied; but it will always be "filtered" through the Bible. Meaning if God "tells" a person something, it will be biblically-based, not new revelation. If a person sees something of God in nature, it will have been "interpreted" from nature through the Bible as a kind of prism, splitting and refracting the raw information from the world into a biblical model. The Bible is the conduit for which all information either directly comes, or is interspersed through to our soul. Most of it seems to flood our soul with a kind of divine relish in the things of God as they relate to our life on this world. For example, the grace of God as it relates to our relationships, or moral behavior, or the direction of our life. I may see the beauty of a mountain range, and have renewed in my mind the majesty of God, and because of that natural beauty filtered through the biblical concepts of God's glory I will renew a commitment to moral purity or relational fidelity. I may read a text such as "the mountains melt like wax before the Lord" and it has the same effect. Whether the source is natural or scriptural, it is refracted through Scriptural ideas and carries me into the world with its applications. We find God in things here, and we live better the here and now in light of it.
I have come to the conclusion that this is most of what Christians experience in America because it is what we are most deficient at. But I believe there comes a very real point at times throughout a Christian's walk with God where God is found in the usual means expressed above, but there is no "earthly use" for the revelation. The communion one's soul enjoys with God in that moment is a trickle of what will be a torrent in eternity, and only serves to emaciate our soul with its earthly attachments. It's as if God severs our earthly interests to give us a reminder that despite the fact that the heavens "declare the glory of God" the heavens are not "the glory of God." Though we live our life for Him here, He must at times make this even seem amiss of our true aim to remind us that "if we save our lives, we will lose them". I do not think Americans will have many of these experiences because of our tendency to be no earthly good. But I do think they are a real experience where God, though found in this present age, lifts the veil and reminds us we have no lasting home here. Though we are to invest our talents, we are to use our mammon to gain eternal friends, we are to live for the glory of God in this age, we are not of this epoch. Ours is another one that must first burn this sad one away before it is consummated.