HEAVEN'S DECLARATION

HEAVEN’S DECLARATION

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made. 2 One day tells a story to the next. One night shares knowledge with the next 3 without talking, without words, without their voices being heard. 4 {Yet,} their sound has gone out into the entire world, their message to the ends of the earth.
Psalms 19:1-4 (GW)

I carried my Bible and my cup of coffee out into the yard. A large flat boulder in the midst of desert plants invited me to come sit a while. I set my Bible down next to me and took in the glorious stillness while I waited for He whom my soul loves to nudge the day into wakefulness.

I took a sip of coffee and looked up at the night sky. The moon hung in the west, and was beginning her quiet descent behind the mountains while Mars lit her way. I continued studying the sky and my gaze came to rest on the Big Dipper. My thoughts began turning, and I looked down at His Word sitting next me and then back at the Big Dipper. A smile touched my lips as I whispered, “Lord, the Big Dipper even reminds me to dip into your living word water, and drink deeply.” It was then my heart became aware of familiar footsteps, and looked up to see Him walking through the garden to meet with me.

He sat down on the boulder next to me, and I simply enjoyed His sweet company there under the expanse of stars He had hung Himself. As we sat quietly, I looked around the garden and then at Him and thought of another garden He had spent time in, the night before He went to the cross. I looked at His hands, the ones with the deep, dark scars in them, and thought of how the hands that hung stars had spikes pounded through them. “Lord,” I whispered. “that must have hurt so much. Thank you for…” I couldn’t finish. I looked around the garden, and then at Him as I thought about the wonder of grace. I smiled through my tears as I realized I was sitting with Him in a garden – a garden of grace.

We turned our attention back to the heavens and He shared familiar words with me from His book. They were words He had given a shepherd boy named David to write down.

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made. 2 One day tells a story to the next. One night shares knowledge with the next 3 without talking, without words, without their voices being heard. 4 {Yet,} their sound has gone out into the entire world, their message to the ends of the earth.
Psalms 19:1-4 (GW)
I looked back at the Big Dipper and how it reminds me to drink from the Streams of Life, and Psalm 19, came alive and made its way deep into my heart. I was filled with wonder at the One Who before time itself had written His love for me into His sky. It declares without uttering a word God’s love.
I was overwhelmed by Him and Who He is. The Great I AM. My heart bowed in worship, and a song I used to sing when I was a little girl came to mind, and I decided to sing it to the One my soul lives for. You can sing it to Him too.


How Great Thou Art
Oh Lord my God when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the *worlds thy hands have made
I see the stars, I hear the **rolling thunder
Thy power throughout the universe displayed

REFRAIN:
Then sings my soul my savior God to thee
How great thou art
How great thou art
Then sings my soul my savior God to thee
How great thou art how great thou art

When thru the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze (Refrain)

And when I think that God, his Son not sparing
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in
That on the cross my burden gladly bearing
He bled and died to take away my sin (Refrain)

When Christ shall come With shout of acclamation
To take me home What joy shall fill my heart
Then I shall bow in humble adoration
And there proclaim my God how great thou art (Refrain)