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Psalms 19:2

David suggests that this teaching goes on day after day after day. It is out there for us to meditate on.

John W. Ritenbaugh
Psalm 23 (Part 1)

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Psalms 19:1-4

David personifies aspects of God's creation, especially things that appear in the heavens. The reason for this is because all of us, before conversion, have had some concept of God. For some of us religious folk, that concept was very fervently, sincerely believed and practiced. But for most of us, the concept of God was vague, maybe even agnostic, doubting. For others, their concept of God was atheistic, that there is no God. Whatever the case, for most, their concept of God is drawn from the creation. David is illustrating this here.

God's creation gives people a picture or an idea that God exists. They may be attracted by the beauty or the vastness they see in what God made, or it may be a combination of factors for their belief. David is showing that creation possesses its own eloquence. In the combination of its vastness, power, beauty, simplicity within complexity, etc., a person begins to think that there is more to life than himself, more than merely living out a span of time and then dying.

John W. Ritenbaugh
Unleavened Bread and Pentecost

Related Topics: Concept of God | Concept of God, False | Concept of God, Faulty | Concept of God, Vague | Creation | Creation, Personification of | Creation, Revelation from | Revelation from Creation | Revelation from Design | Revelation, Natural | Revelation, Public

Other commentary entries containing this verse:

Amos 1:3-15
Amos 2:1-3

Library resources that contain this verse:

Booklets
Prepare to Meet Your God! (The Book of Amos) (Part One)
Sermon Transcripts
Faith and the Calendar (Part 5): Summary
Four Views of Christ (Part 2)
Immutable Scientific Laws
Meditate on These Things
New Covenant Priesthood (Part 3)
New Covenant Priesthood (Part 4)
Psalm 23 (Part 1)
Psalm 23 (Part 1)
The Fear of God (Part 1)
Unleavened Bread and Pentecost

 

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