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Today's reading
December 1, 2025
Psalm 19:1-3
Stop for a minute and breathe.
Open the doors of your memory until you find one of the moments where you felt truly small before nature. A moment when the monotonous drone of life fell away and you truly felt the weight and awe of creation. Maybe it was a sunrise that set the sky on fire, or a night when the stars felt close enough to touch.
For David, this was likely a familiar feeling. As a shepherd, he spent countless days and nights wandering hills and valleys in search of still waters and green pastures. As a soldier he would have spent months at a time spread out on hillsides and plateaus gazing at the stars searching for some peace amidst the chaos of battle. For much of his life he was drawn to far flung corners away from the hum of civilization. It was under these open skies that he watched the slow miracle of creation—the pastel glow of dawn, the deep black of the heavens pierced by stars, the shimmering haze of the Milky Way. These mental images formed him.
As he watched the skies perform their nightly dance, something welled up within him—
a recognition, a reassurance, a reverence—and he wrote:
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
2 Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is not heard."
Psalm 19:1-3 (NKJV)
Utters speech is even more vivid than it sounds. It conveys the idea of pure water bursting from a spring, quenching the thirst of those who drink. The sky is not merely speaking – it is bursting with song, overflowing with revelation that can sustain all who drink it. This news isn’t confined to a select group of people that walked the earth for a sliver of time. This song is for all people for all time.
August Tholuck wrote:
"Though all preachers on earth should grow silent, and every human mouth cease from publishing the glory of God, the heavens above will never cease to declare and proclaim his majesty and glory. They are forever preaching; for, like an unbroken chain, their message is delivered from day to day and from night to night.”
Earths skies and the universe all around beckon us to believe that there is a God so glorious that the splendors of the universe are the faintest whispers of His power. So Holy that piercing heavenly light is the quality of His character. The planets in their orbits, the lights dancing around earth poles, and the sun gliding over the horizon all bear witness that –
​life is not random, beauty is not accidental, and we are not alone.