A DAILY DECLARATION OF GLORY

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In Christ, Mark

The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Psalm 19:1-6

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Think about each day we experience. Are they not defined by day and night?

For most people, the dawn signals the time to rise and draw breath and get into the matters of the day while dusk and its impending darkness beckons us toward sleep and rest to prepare for the coming new dawn.

Indeed, each day has a magical nature to it that we should never take for granted no matter how many we are blessed to experience. For as we look to the heavens for indications of day and night, good weather and bad, we catch a glimpse of the miraculous nature of God’s creative wonder and the declaration of His glory.

I’m grateful David didn’t get so caught up in his busy life as king of Israel to lose sight of God’s awesome wonder. For in the opening words of the 19th Psalm, he writes wonderful prose to remind you and me to look no further than the skies to see God revealed in full splendor and majesty. Look at the first six verses:

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

   

When we gaze toward the heavens, whether into the light of day or the moonlit, star-filled night sky, we are literally hearing God say to us, “Admire what I am. Feast your eyes on My glory, the very work of My almighty hands.” Yes, the skies as we peer into them proclaim what God has done. They daily declare the proof of what the Lord did on the first, second and fourth days of his seven day creation miracle.

But are we listening? Are we hearing this declaration?

David tells us that the heavens and skies never refrain from speaking to the world, revealing the very knowledge and nature of the power of the God Most High. They speak but yet no words are uttered. None are needed. Because in the case of creation and what God has done, an old saying comes alive: A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.

David goes on the paint a poetic picture of the sun’s rise and fall over creation each and every day. He likens the heavens to a tent God has pitched to guide the sun in its arc, rising at one end of the heavens and moving toward the other like a “champion running its course”. And nothing is deprived of the sun’s warmth just as nothing is deprived of the warmth of God’s love. There is no place on God’s creation where His light does not shine. There is never a place in total darkness.

Friends, we should be giving thanks to God for this word. I know I do as it awakens me from my numbed sense of the world I live in and gets me tuned back in with seeing God declared in the things we too often take for granted. As I write this morning, the sun is beaming through the window and speaking to me as powerfully as the Holy Spirit, declaring to me the awesome nature of the glory of the Lord.

My prayer is that you are hearing Him speak to you as well.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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