"The heavens declare the
glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes
out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world."
. . . . . . .
God created the heavens and the earth for our good, our benefit, pleasure, enjoyment, and delight!
We are masterfully designed to enjoy, appreciate, understand, delight in, use, benefit from, and rule over all the earth!
Who besides us can drink in the beauty of a sunrise, the majesty of the mountains, or the tenderness of a mother nursing her baby? We can enjoy and derive benefit from trees, flowers, plants, and animals.
This speaks VOLUMES about our Creator!! He is GOOD and provides for, cares about, and attends to every detail of our environment for our delight and enjoyment. We alone can fully appreciate beauty, art, majesty, creativity, colors, textures, tastes, sounds, music, language, communication, emotion, love, expression...the list could go on and on!
We are God's crowning creation....the earth was created for us!! God masterfully prepared, formed, filled the heavens and the earth for us!! For our provision, enjoyment, and delight!!
We were also created FOR GOD, for relationship with Him and for the praise of His glory!
Also, creation was designed in specific ways to ILLUSTRATE spiritual truth and to teach us about God, His character and ways, and principles of truth, wisdom, and glory!
For example, the starts were created to give us the possibility of navigation, signs for indicating seasons, days, years, months, even hours...all to provide for us ORDER, DIRECTION, and a sense of AWE of our Creator!
For our well-being, there is purpose in the details!
God blessed His work on the 5th day, meaning "to make happy" and give divine favor. We were also blessed with fruitfulness, the ability to reproduce.
God commands us with the words: fruitful, increase, and fill. His first commands run parallel to the desires, gifts, and abilities He had already placed in His creatures. Obeying His command was a natural outflow of the life God had breathed into them.
We, in particular were made in God's image with a SPECIAL capacity to worship, love, and serve God.
Here are some more points on creation's "speech":
The sun, moon, and stars are:
-visible signs of God's power
-cause us to worship Him (Psalm 8,19, Romans 1:19-20)
-build faith in His promises (Genesis 15:4-5, Jeremiah 31:35-36)
-point to extraordinary events (Jesus' birth, Jesus' second coming, divine judgment)
-used for determining seasons, navigating, weather, etc,
-as a way to illustrate the concept of God's marvelous light and its effects on us, it's a picture, a metaphor for spiritual truth
