“诸天述说神的荣耀,穹苍传扬他的手段。这日到那日发出言语。这夜到那夜传出知识。” - 诗 19:1-2
想一想,我们可以通过哪些方式将荣耀归给神。当我们说话时,可以用自己的言语来荣耀神,可以用尊荣祂的方式谈论神。我们可以传递神对我们和对全世界的爱。当我们听到别人谈论神的荣耀时,我们也会学习和成长,认识神的荣耀。
《诗篇》19篇表明,我们也可以通过自然界认识神的荣耀。这里说:“诸天述说神的荣耀”。根据这首诗,还有一种说法是,“穹苍传扬他的手段”。这是一幅奇特而富有诗意的画面。天空是不会说话的! 这篇《诗篇》在第3节中承认了这一点:“无言无语,也无声音可听”。然而,天空以其简单、美丽的存在,向世界传达了关于神——其创造者的信息。
神创造了一个美丽的世界。这个世界,仅仅因为它是神创造的,就为神本身的美发出了声音。人们可以用他们的语言,藉着彼此相爱和他们自己,以及关心神所爱的世界来荣耀神。
天空用它的云彩、彩虹和灰蓝色调来述说神的荣耀。想一想:当我们用我们的语言,甚至我们的整个生命来分享我们伟大之神的荣耀时,我们能做的事是什么!
祷告
荣耀的神,就像天空传扬你创造性的爱和力量一样,让我在我所想、所说、所做的一切中把荣耀归给你。阿们。
诗篇 19:1-6
1诸天述说神的荣耀,穹苍传扬他的手段。
2这日到那日发出言语,这夜到那夜传出知识。
3无言无语,也无声音可听。
4他的量带通遍天下,他的言语传到地极。神在其间为太阳安设帐幕,
5太阳如同新郎出洞房,又如勇士欢然奔路。
6它从天这边出来,绕到天那边,没有一物被隐藏不得他的热气。
Giving Voice
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech. . . ." - Psalm 19:1-2
Think of the ways we can give glory to God. When we speak, we can glorify God with our words. We can talk about God in ways that honor him. We can communicate God's love for us and for the whole world. We also learn and grow to know about God's glory when we hear others speak about it.
Psalm 19 shows that we can even learn about God's glory through nature. It says, "The heavens declare the glory of God." Another way to put it, according to this psalm, is that "the skies proclaim the work of his hands." This is a strange and poetic picture. The sky can't talk! The psalm acknowledges this in verse 3: "They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them." And yet the sky, by its simple, beautiful existence, communicates to the world about God, its creator.
God has created a beautiful world. This world, simply by being what God created it to be, gives voice to the beauty of God himself. People can glorify God with their words, by loving each other and themselves, and by caring for the world that God loves.
The sky uses its clouds, rainbows, and shades of gray and blue to tell about the glory of God. Think of all that we can do as we use our words and even our whole life to share about the glory of our great God!
Prayer
Glorious God, just as the sky proclaims your creative love and power, let me give you glory in all I think, say, and do. Amen.