So verse 3 says, “There is no speech, nor are there words their voice is not heard.” Yet, verse 4 goes back and says the same thing as verse 2 again, “Yet their line goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” Wordless words, speechless speech, voiceless voice.
Instead, it’s light and color and contrast and shape and proportion and design and motion and magnitude, etc. In other words, God means for there to be communication from his mind and heart to our mind and heart, but the medium of communication - the thing that carries the reality from his heart to my heart - is not written words it’s not spoken words. Verse 2: “Day to day pours forth speech.” Verse 3: “There is no speech.” (It’s the same Hebrew word for “speech” in both places.) Notice the paradox between verses 2 and 3. Now, third, the message of God through the skies reaches the mind and the heart without the medium of ordinary words or speech. God is talking to the world all day and all night, every day and every night, everywhere in the world. Second, the sky gushes forth with speech. Without Wordsįirst, then, the focus is on what we see when we look up, the skies. And since he never speaks in vain, he means for what he has to say to minister to you - to meet some need that you have. Fix this truth in your minds: God speaks through what he has made, and means for you to hear what he has to say. The second thing to see is that these skies “tell” - they “proclaim.” Verse 2: they “pour forth speech” (it’s a word for a gushing or spewing out) they make known knowledge. But here the focus is on the heavens, the skies, what we see when we look up. And therefore everything that God has made ministers - for those who will listen. And David doesn’t mean to say that the skies speak of God but the earth doesn’t or that the ocean or the lakes and trees and birds and animals and flowers and mountains don’t. Of course, God made more than what we see when we look up. Psalm 19:1: “The heavens are telling the glory of God and the firmament declares his handiwork.” The focus of these six verses is on what we see when we look up - the heavens, the skies, the firmament (an old word for the arched dome of blue sky that seems to sit on the circle of the earth). And we will see how the two ministries are connected - through the skies and through the Scriptures. And then tonight we will ask: How does God, through the skies, minister healing, and hope, and happiness, and humility in our lives? And if there is time tonight, we will go on to look at God’s ministry to us in the Scripture as it is described in verses 7 and 8. So let’s go to Psalm 19:1–6 and let God tell us the content of his ministry to us through the skies - what he is saying and showing to us. I’m speaking of the ministry of the Lord through what he has created, through the world of nature, especially what we see when we look up into the skies during the day and during the night. There is not a day that goes by, nor is there a place in the world, where God does not extend this ministry for the healing and hope and happiness and humility of those who will receive it. “Everything that God has made ministers - for those who will listen.” And yet this neglected ministry of the Lord is one that God means for you to be helped by every day. An Often Neglected Ministry of God to UsĪs I’ve tried to sense God’s leading for this morning’s and this evening’s messages, I believe what he wants me to do is put you in touch with one of his ministries to you that is often neglected, especially by urban, fast-paced, productive, efficient, rational, scientific people like you and me. Perhaps you can remember the content of Psalm 19 that way: verses 1–6 describe the ministry of God through the sky and verses 7–11 describe the ministry of God through the Scriptures. My goal this morning and this evening is to connect you with the ministry of God through the sky and through the Scripture.
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