Psalms 19:2 (KJV)
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Creation testifies of God day after day and night after night. Its witness never stops. It is incessant and unrelenting.
Yet fallen man can tune out even a witness that never ceases. We see it in the way people respond to the Word of God. There are more means of proclaiming it than at any time in history: radio, television, the internet, social media, printed pages, and churches in nearly every community. People can drive past the same church so often that they do not even realize a church is there.
That does not mean the witness is powerless. Neither does it mean the witness should stop. It means God knows the nature of man.
And we who love the Lord are not immune. We can become so familiar with the Bible that we read its words without hearing Him. We can recognize a passage, remember a sermon about it, and move on without letting it search our hearts.
Psalm 19 calls us to do more than acknowledge that God has spoken. We must respond to what He says:
- Fear the Lord. Approach His Word with reverence, ready to obey rather than merely to agree.
- Desire His judgments. Treasure what God says, even when it corrects us.
- Guard against presumptuous sins. Do not excuse a sin simply because it has become familiar.
- Meditate on and speak His words. Give the Scriptures room in our thoughts and let them shape what comes from our mouths.
The witness is still speaking. The question is whether we are listening.
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