Gregg DeMey 00:08
Welcome to Elmhurst CRC's daily dose of the Word of God. It's Tuesday, January 18. The Season of Epiphany when things get revealed in Sunday is coming. This is Gregg DeMey. I serve as Lead Pastor at ECRC. And I'll be reading today from Psalm 19:1-6. "The heavens declare the glory of God. The skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech and night after night, they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words and no sound is heard from them. And yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens, God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber. like a champion rejoicing to run his course, it rises at one end of the heavens and makes it circuit to the other, nothing is deprived of its warmth."
Gregg DeMey 01:03
Throughout history, theologians have observed that God reveals Himself in two different books. The first is the book of nature. And the second is the book of books also known as the Bible or God's word. The first half of Psalm 19 is all about the book of nature. The heavens are declaring the glory of God, the skies today are proclaiming the work of God's hands. There's no corner of the globe where their testimony to the Creator goes unheard. Perhaps this is why there has never been a purely atheistic culture in the history of planet Earth. Though we're currently experimenting with creating the first one here in the West. This is because when we humans look up and look around, we are inevitably drawn by the grander mystery and awesomeness of the natural world into the grander mystery and awesomeness of the Creator. For scientists of faith, knowing more about the details and mechanics, of how it all works, only bolsters their connection to the maker. I'm no scientist, but it works that way for me to the more I see, the more I understand, the more glorious the book of nature reads.
Gregg DeMey 02:11
Let's pray, Oh God, Creator of all, and creator of even little me, give us eyes to see this day to read the book that you've written in the natural order of things, from the flight patterns of birds to the complexities of organic chemistry. We want to recognize your fingerprints, and more greatly worship you. In Jesus name, Amen.