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God's World
Devotional for Tuesday, October 14, 1997 by Charles Scobie
Psalm 19:1 -- The heavens are telling the glory of God;
- and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
Scholars who find here two quite separate psalms completely miss the point (some even see in vs.1-6 a pagan hymn worshipping the sun god). The God who speaks to us through his Word in Scripture, the God who called Israel to be his servant and who sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world - this God is the same God whom we can also see in the majesty and mystery of creation.
It is on God the Creator that the psalm initially focuses. In recent
decades radio telescopes and space probes have vastly increased our
knowledge of the universe. Astronomy is a popular and fascinating
subject and it continually reveals more to us of the unimaginable size
and unbelievable complexity of the universe. For believers, such new
discoveries do not lessen our faith; on the contrary they fill us with
greater awe as we marvel at the glory of God revealed in the heavens. As
Addison so eloquently put it
- The spacious firmament on high,
- With all the blue ethereal sky,
- And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
- Their great original proclaim.
Charles Scobie <cscobie@nbnet.nb.ca>
Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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And Can It Be.