The Universe Proclaims

We must endeavor, in line with our Master’s directive in the Lord’s Prayer, to focus our gaze on the majesty of God. The greater the degree in which God becomes fixed in our gaze, the more realistically we will be able to evaluate the events that go on around us here on earth.

In today’s passage the psalmist tells us that one way we can focus on the greatness of God is to consider His handiwork in creation. All around us in this wonderful world, we see evidences of His sublime sufficiency. Consider, for example, the vastness of the universe. Scientists tell us that in relation to the myriads of other celestial bodies in outer space, the planet we inhabit is like a tiny speck of dust in a huge railway station in relation to all the other specks of dust around it, or like a single grain of sand among all the sand on all the seashores of the world. They tell us also that if the earth were to fall out of its orbit and spin away into space, it would create no more disturbance than the dropping of a pea into the Pacific Ocean!

Such word pictures, inadequate as they are, do nevertheless help us form some idea of the greatness and power of our God. Who can meditate on the vastness of the universe without experiencing an expansion in their conception of the majesty of God? Why did God construct the universe on such a grand scale? My conclusion is: He did it to show us that He is gloriously sufficient, unchangingly adequate, and abidingly faithful. How wonderful to contemplate such creative enormity!

Further Study

Mt 6:19-34; Lk 12:24; Ps 45:1-17

How did Jesus focus our attention on God’s goodness?

Of whom does the psalmist give us a picture?