The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Psalm 19:1 (NIV)

Sky High – Part 1

My friends tend to think I’m a bit of a hippy. I feel everything – I cry and laugh, and everything in between, at the drop of a hat. I often start my sentences with “I feel like…” Jesse (husband) is more into empirical evidence: order, science and logic. His sentences often start with “The facts are…” But nature is where these two meet. Science and wonder. Order and chaos. The natural and the Divine. And in this setting, the two can hardly be separated. In this space, they are one and the same.

CH Spurgeon says of David, “In his earliest days, while keeping his father’s flock, [David] had devoted himself to the study of God’s two great books—nature and Scripture; and he had so thoroughly entered into the spirit of these two only volumes in his library that he was able with a devout criticism to compare and contrast them, magnifying the excellency of the Author as seen in both. He [you, me, all] is wisest who reads both the world-book, and the Word-book as two volumes of the same work, and feels concerning them, “My Father wrote them both.””

Have you ever looked up into the sky at night and felt glory fall from heaven like rains drops that soak your heart in mystery and awe? Have you ever heard the beautiful song of the night's starry sky or the bold declarations of the gleaming hot sun?

God is in and through all things. He forged the earth and sky, the seas and forests, and all living creatures… He knelt to the ground, gathered the dust together with his hands, and sculpted human form. His breath ignited life within that delicately crafted lump of clay, threading the natural body with the breath of eternity. His essence echoes through all creation. And when you listen, not with your ears per se, but with faith, you can hear him, feel his rhythm and beat through it all. It connects us.

The ground you walk on isn’t just dirt, the water you drink isn’t just liquid, the sky full of stars isn’t just blackness and light – it’s all an expression of God’s wonder and grace, power and love… And they are sacred. Like Spurgeon says of David, understand that God is divinely linked to both the scriptures and the world around you. Don’t pass up one for the other, but see GOD in His fullness reflected through both.

Perhaps if we learned to read nature like we would a book, we would see his marvellous scripture painted across the sky, written into the side of mountains and riding waves onto sandy shores…

Tonight, try and take a moment away from man-made things, step outside into the night and behold the wonder of the starry heavens and listen to it “proclaim the work of His hands…”

You never know what you might hear.

Go to Part 2 – Sky Full of Stars »

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