A couple weeks ago, my wife Peggy and I were able to spend a few days camping in the Bridgeport/Twin Lakes area. I have been going there for well over 50 years, as it was a favorite of my dad’s. He would take us kids there a couple times every year, so it’s full of great memories. It’s marvelously beautiful country and the fishing is pretty good most of the time.
One late night, I took our lab Lady out of our RV to “do her business.” There was no moon and it was incredibly dark. Then I looked up. Stars! Thousands of stars glistened in a sea of blackness. I stood in awe! The words of Psalm 19 came to my mind as my heart swelled with worship:
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 reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It’s like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth. — Psalm 19:1-6.
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
Take time to look up, look around, see the beauty and majesty of God’s creation — after all, God created it all with us in mind because of His great love.
The God of creation is also the God “who became flesh and lived among us” — Jesus Christ, the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth, and who is alive forevermore! Worship Him!
Louie Locke is the pastor of Fountainhead Foursquare Church, 3690 Highway 395, Carson City, www.ffcwired.org.
