DO YOU HEAR WHAT YOU SEE!

Like many kings of his day, David had his distractors and so called “wise men” who offered their explanation about how to live and succeed. Many turned to the mysteries of nature and witchcraft to understand the unseen and interpret the secretes of life. That’s because they couldn’t bring themselves to believe that God really did everything they saw in heavens, and therefore shouldn’t get all the credit and praise. As such, they depended on themselves and their intellect to find answers for life’s most puzzling questions. But David decided to consult the fountain of knowledge and wisdom, His God.

“The galaxies communicate the genius of our Sovereign God, and the sky displays His brilliant handiwork. We see it day after day and night after night. The amazing thing, they do it all without uttering a word. Yet their message is seen all around the world. And right in the middle is the sun that materializes from the dark like a groom emerging from his bachelor suite; or like a champion eager to run the marathon. We see him rise on one end of the horizon and arc over to the other side; and nothing can hide from his light. That’s why the teachings, judgments, principles, instructions, faithfulness, and decisions of the LORD Eternal are complete, reliable, fair, clear, enlightening and eternally valid for the soul, intellect, heart, mind and spirit. They are worth their weight in purest gold, and more satisfying than the sweetest honey right from the honeycomb. Your servant takes all of them seriously, because it is important to obey them. No one can be completely aware of every mistake they make, so I trust Him not to hold any innocent mistakes against me. But I want Him to keep me free from biases; don’t let them control me. That way I can be free of prejudice and avoid making bad moral judgments. And I pray, that these words that I have spoken and all the things I’ve meditated on in my heart will meet Your approval, O LORD Eternal, my Rock and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:1-14

Reflection: President Theodore Roosevelt was a dedicated outdoorsman. He loved to go on trips into the wild to see nature untouched by man. One night standing outside his tent in the badlands of North Dakota, he scanned the sky for a tiny patch of light near the constellation of Pegasus. After spotting it he said to his friend William Beebe, “That’s the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda, and it’s as large as our own Milky Way; containing over one hundred billion suns larger than our own.” As they stood there looking into space, Roosevelt remarked, “It sure makes us realize how small we really are.” We might say that Roosevelt had a “King David” moment. David believed that God designed the universe as a teaching tool to understand His greatness. Some skeptics try to explain away any higher power being involved in its creation. But the more they explore it, the more intricate and marvelous it becomes, making it harder and harder to believe it was all an accident. If you took 10,000 pieces of paper, each one having a letter of the alphabet, up in an airplane and dropped them from 5,000 feet, the chances of them landing to spell out a word are remotely possible; but the likelihood of them forming a sentence are rare, if not impossible. Take 20,000 pieces up to 10,000 feet and the odds against words forming become even higher since the further they fall and the wider they spread the less chance they have. That’s why the more millions or billions of years evolutionists add to their formula of how the universe and planets were formed, makes their theory less and less plausible.