Key Verse: Verse 19 - “ He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Key Words: the sun knoweth his going down
One cannot help but look at this portion of the psalm and think about what the psalmist saw: the moon, sun, and the beasts.
From the top of the hills and mountains his eyes gaze at the beauty of the sunrise (verse 22).
We know much more about the sun today than did the psalmist. It is the source of light and life upon this planet. Were it only a little hotter, it would scorch the globe and turn it into a vast desert. Were it but a little colder, it would allow the arctic to march in triumph from the poles to the equator and turn the earth into a giant block of ice. To maintain the earth at its proper mean temperature, the sun consumes 4,200,000 tons of its weight every second. Yet this prodigious output of energy is so controlled and regulated that the thin margin of temperature necessary for life to exist is maintained from age to age. No wonder primitive peoples worshiped the sun.
The psalmist does not make that mistake. He worships the sun's mighty Maker, the One he describes as "the Lord my God."
So the psalmist's gaze takes in the sun, and his thoughts range far and wide as he thinks how much this earth owes to its parent star and how much, in consequence, it owes to the One Who brought it into being. But still his wandering eyes rove across the works of God in creation.
I am reminded of Romans 1:25, "Who... worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator..." Let each of us put God first, not the creatures.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ See God in all of creation and worship God, not the creature.
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