CREATION’S MESSAGE!
CREATION IS SPEAKING TO YOU!
LISTEN AND LOOK AT CREATION’S STORY!- {Psalm 19:1-4}
Many, many years ago, early one morning when I awoke, groggy, I had a friend sitting across the room who asked me “Did you hear them last night?” Me-“Hear what?” He said, “Did you hear the heavens SHOUT the Glory of God?”
In Psalm 19:1-4 the Psalmist speaks to us about God communicating through His Creation for all the world to Know of Him and how Creation points to the CREATOR and he calls us to consider Him. God has revealed Himself through Creation v 1-6, His Word- v 7-12, and how we are all to Respond- v 12-14.
The word used for “GOD” in verse 1 is “EL” – “Mighty One, Strength.” Genesis 1:1 tells us in the beginning God created the heavens and earth. The Powerful, Creator, who all around us has made Himself known through His Creation. It’s a powerful yet wordless sermon that speaks volumes if we will but look and listen to the heavens declaring the Glory of God the Creator!
So let’s consider a few things from Psalm 19:1-4 about the Creator and the purpose of Creation…
1.- PROCLAIMING – GLORY, GLORY, GLORY!
“The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship.”-{v1}
Note the Heavens are speaking, proclaiming something, namely “proclaiming the Glory of God!” The word “proclaiming” means to “declare, recount, show forth, speak, tell.” The heavens are “SPEAKING, DECLARING, RELATE,” What are they declaring, speaking of? “The Glory of God!”
The word “Glory” -” “…comes from a word meaning “weight” or “worth.” We see abundant evidence of God’s weight or worth by looking at His creation, especially at the vastness and grandeur of the universe. Every day the sun in its splendor and every night the stars in their glory tell about the greater glory of the God who spoke them into existence.
If people choose to ignore God’s revelation in His creation, it is not because of a lack of evidence: “Their line has gone out through all the earth” (Ps. 19:4). The message extends everywhere. If you live in this universe, you have clear testimony to the God who created it.”- Cole}
The word “Glory” as used here refers to “SPLENDOR, GLORIOUS.” God’s Splendor is on display through the whole world, the sun, moon, stars, and galaxies all cry out “Glory, Glory, Glory” of God, the Creator’s splendor, majesty, greatness! They speak to us of the Creator God! All around us, we can see Him in Creation! The splendor of clouds that move carrying water and at His command opening and dispensing the amount He deems. The streams, waters that flow into lakes and oceans, and all the earth declare Him. The Mighty, Glorious Creator and call us to consider Him who has created all effortlessly, gloriously! And yet Paul in Romans 1:20-23 says, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.”-{Rom 1:20-23}
People in the depravity of sin worship the Creation rather than the Creator, such is the sinfulness of sin to blind and deceive our mind. Yet He Speaks, and communicates through Creation, so people are without excuse, though they deny Him and displace Him through worshipping the creation rather than the Creator. For behind Creation is the One who Created it all – GOD! And the heavens shout, declare the Glory not of mankind but God!
2.- CONSISTENTLY PROCLAIMING…
“Day after day they continue to speak; to speak;
night after night they make Him known.”- {v2}
No matter the second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, or century, while all else may change not God and He is consistently proclaiming Himself through His Creation whether it be day or night. Creation consistently proclaims the Glory of God!
3.- SILENTLY PROCLAIMING
3 “They speak without a sound or word;
their voice is never heard.”-{ v 3}
What a powerful sermon the heavens declare. Though silent, without words yet not without declaration- The very creation speak in beauty and majesty and of the Creator!
4.- GLOBALLY PROCLAIMING
4 “Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,
and their words to ALL the world.”– {v 4 NLT}
There is no place on earth where His creation has not been revealed and is not being revealed, we are enveloped in His world. Surrounded by His creation.
One time when my children were young one of my boys knew I was traveling to the other side of the world and was sad So, I told him that every night when he looked up to the moon to know I too would look up to the moon and we could remind each of the other. And he would know I was thinking of him. Thousands of miles away we could see the same moon, which exists to remind us too of our Creator!
5.- A VISIBLE MESSAGE-
We look up and all around and the Heavens are declaring, testifying- to the GLORY of God!
Recently I was at a medical facility when one of the staff spoke to me of a recent storm and how it was so intense and fierce that she thought the rapture was about to take place I told her no but that the Hevans were displaying the Glory of God from Psalm 19:1
From the storms to the sun, moon, stars, mountains, lakes, oceans, and hills, all around us God is speaking, declaring Himself through His Creation, communicating to mankind so that all are without excuse.
His CREATION IS…
- PROCLAIMING…
- CONSISTENTLY…
- SILENTLY…,
- GLOBALLY…
- VISIBLY…
- HIS GLORY
CREATION EXISTS TO PROCLAIM…THE GLORY OF GOD!
HAVE YOU HEARD THEM?
IF YOU LOOK YOU WILL SEE THEM PROCLAIM THE GLORY OF THE CREATOR- GOD!
Have you heard the Heavens Shout? And what are they saying? Glory, Glory, Glory to God the Creator!
JOIN IN THE CHORUS AND CELEBRATE AND GLORY IN GOD THE CREATOR. Ask Him to remind you to consider His Creation and GLORY in HIM!
CONSIDER GOD THE CREATOR BY LOOKING AND CONTEMPLATING HIS CREATION ALL AROUND YOU!
God bless,
Aidan,