Psalm 19 (part 1): God’s hand is visible everywhere
I think Psalm 19 can be divided into two functional sections, for the purpose of discussing it. The first goes to verse 6. I’m going to write about it today.
David found the heavens to talk in no uncertain terms about their Creator. Nowadays, scientists find it hard to see God in nature and in the skies. Perhaps it’s a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. We’ve gotten so good at examining the minute processes and building blocks of everything, that we have a hard time stepping back and putting it all together. We see similarities between us and other animals, and instead of lauding God for being efficient and using common building blocks wherever possible, we think we evolved from some monkey or other such primitive thing. We look at the skies, see the movements of the stars, examine the composition of the gases and different elements that make them up, and try to guess how many billions of years they’ve been around, and how much longer they might be around, when our own lifetimes are so insignificant in duration. Shouldn’t we focus on gripping God’s promise of entering heaven and living forever? I think then we’d be better equipped to see how long the stars have really been around, and how much longer they’ll be around.
I’ve got the short answer for you, anyway: everything has been around and will be around as long as God wills it. David was able to see this, and was able to admire God’s handiwork, as manifested in the heavens and on the earth. Granted, he thought the sun moved around the earth, not the other way, but we can forgive him that, because he saw the bigger picture. He saw that God provided the sun, the stars and the moon, and placed the earth in its proper orbit for our benefit, that things might work as they do, and tell of Him by day and night.
