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Greetings Brad,
If I understand you correctly, I think you're basically right. It is pointed out over and over again that to deny the personality of God results in the choice between only two philosophic dilemmas: materialism or pantheism (1:5:11). Thinking about grass growing, even asking questions about it from now into eternity without asking those question of the personality of God, results in either materialism or pantheism.
In other words, the contemplation of nature only reveals the God of nature. It does not reveal the nature of his personality, nor does it reveal anything concerning personal survival, spiritual values worth taking with us into eternity. God cannot be found through contemplation of blades of grass, but after finding God, contemplation of those blades of grass can add to our understanding of him (see quote below).
The contemplation of nature does logically point in the direction of intelligent guidance, even living supervision, but it does not in any satisfactory manner reveal a personal God. On the other hand, nature discloses nothing which would preclude the universe from being looked upon as the handiwork of the God of religion. God cannot be found through nature alone, but man having otherwise found him, the study of nature becomes wholly consistent with a higher and more spiritual interpretation of the universe. 101:2:9
In Friendship,
Rexford
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