God’s splendor is a tale that is told; his testament is written in the stars. a Space itself speaks his story every day through the marvels of the heavens. His truth is on tour in the starry-vault of the sky, showing his skill in creation’s craftsmanship. Psalm 19:1 (TPT)
The Sky – Heaven and Earth Series – Part 1
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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 soft snow that saturated everything in mystery and awe? Have you felt the bold declarations of the gleaming hot sun as we sojourn around it?
The Divine is in and through all things. No matter how the world came to be – whether you're a young earth or old earth creationist, or something else – it's as if the bare materials of the world are infused with his essence, his breath.
Threaded in and through and around it all.
When you listen, maybe more with your heart and with faith than ears, you can hear him. You can feel his rhythm and beat. 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… 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 the Divine reflected through both.
Perhaps if we learned to read nature like we would a book, we would see his marvelous scripture painted across the sky, written into the side of mountains and riding waves onto sandy shores…
Take a moment, if you can, get away from man-made things, step outside into the night and look up into the starry heavens.
Make the act a prayer.
Listen to it “proclaim the work of His hands…”
You never know what you might hear.
Your turn… what can you hear God saying through nature? Leave us your comments below.
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