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Excerpted from: Unleavened Bread and PentecostDavid here is personifying aspects of God's creation, especially those things that appear in the heavens. The reason that he did that and the reason that I am drawing upon this is because all of us, before conversion, have had some concept of God. Now for some of us the concept was very fervently believed and practiced. We were religious folk, and we practiced that religion. We did it very fervently. We were sincere in what we did. But for most of us, the concept of God was vague, it was maybe even agnostic, like, "What do I know?" or "I do not know anything for sure," and for some their concept of God was atheistic, that there is no God. But most of the time, our concept of God is something that is drawn from the creation. That is what David is saying here.
The creation gives people a concept, a picture, an idea that there is a God. They may be attracted by the beauty that they see in whatever God made. They may be attracted by the vastness. They may be attracted by all of the combinations of factors that they are able to see, but here is an eloquence to creation. In the combination of its vastness, of its power, of its beauty, of its complexity, of its simplicity, that leads a person to think that there is more to life than me. There is more to life than that I should just live out a span of time and then die.
These kinds of concepts that we draw from the creation actually help to lead a person to feel a sense of immortality. We find that even in God's Word where Solomon says that God has put eternity into our hearts. That is there because we get ideas that there is a Creator God. That is what David is expressing here, that their line, their direction, their voice has gone all over the creation and so everybody has a witness that there is something awesome that is behind what they are able to see and so they may call it God, they even call it Baal. They may call it the Lord, the first cause; they might come up with all kinds of names.
Psalm 19:1-4
Excerpted from: Four Views of Christ (Part 2)David looked at God's creation and this is what the result was. He saw something, he grasped something, he comprehended something that is of spiritual significance. He not only saw a creation, but he saw a creation that constantly, every day, day after day witnesses to all of mankind that there is a great and awesome Creator of tremendous wisdom, awesome power of magnitude of mind and intelligence that is beyond comprehension. Was David's perspective different from other men's? Certainly it was.
Psalm 19:1-5
Excerpted from: Of God Appointed LifeThe unspoken words of God's creativity and maintaining power are constantly in front of us, everywhere.
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