Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Day and Night
The heavens proclaim the glory of God
And the firmament shows forth the work of God’s hands.
Day unto day takes up the story
And night unto night makes know the message.
No speech, no word, no voice is heard
Yet their span extends through all the earth,
Their words to the utmost bounds of the world.
This spring we have reflected on the importance of preaching God’s Word with every small and great act in our lives. We have pondered the Lesson of the Fig Tree and the worth of even the smallest of sparrows. We have spent time examining our experience of Christ and we have compared the ideal with the real. Today we arrive at understanding that each day and each night are filled with God’s grace even when we cannot see or feel it. We have arrived at believing that just as the firmament extols God’s goodness . . . so must we. No speech is necessary. No word need be uttered. We have only to spend each waking moment doing God’s work. We have only to put our slumber into God’s trustworthy hands for it is in this way that we enter into God’s eternal goodness.
Is this what the Apostle John has seen and heard? Is this the goodness we seek? Is this the gift we have already been freely given?
Tomorrow, a prayer for our days and nights.
Visit the scripture link above and read the versions of this citation that have been pre-selected. Choose another version and ponder how the firmament speaks without words.
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