Daily Devotion for October 18, 2005

Silent Voices

 

Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. 
There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.  PSA 19:3 
Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, Psalm 19:2-4

 

Of all the things we take for granted, one of the most amazing is surely the regularity of nature, the fact that the sun appears each morning bidding us rise and shine, and sets each evening bidding us rest and sleep. The Psalmist invites us to discern in the regularity of day and night the goodness and the provision of God the Creator.

 

He does so in a very arresting way. In one sense the rotation of the earth is silent (v.3); but in another sense it "pours forth speech," "declares knowledge," and sends out its voice and its words.

 

The idea of a "natural theology" is not always popular with theologians but if this psalm is saying anything it is surely saying that all people everywhere can know something of God, however partially and imperfectly, from the world in which they live. Note the repeated emphasis on the fact that God's voice in nature, though silent, is heard "through all the earth," and "to the end of the world." From one end of the universe to another the silent voice of nature speaks of the Creator.

 

Prayer
O Lord, you have provided for us in so many ways, yet there is so much we take for granted. Give us ears that we may hear in nature the voice of the Creator, and in response may praise you for all your goodness to us. Amen.

 

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