Mensa Otabil - God Speaks Everywhere (10/11/2025)
We are in Psalm 19, and we’re looking at verses three and four. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone up through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them, He has set a tabernacle for the sun. Through creation, through the wonder of creation, God has made Himself known to all the peoples of the earth, and this is the starting point of knowing God through what He has done, through His works. The passage says that God’s creation speaks in every language.
Isn’t that amazing? Creation does not speak to us in words as we know them, definitely not in English, Fante, French, or some other language, but creation speaks to us in a silent way. In that silent language, we share creation, telling us something so that from the least educated person-someone who has never studied any alphabet or numbers-to the most educated scientific mind, each one hears the words that the heavens are telling us. The heavens are telling us of something grand, something majestic, something that is beyond ourselves. All of us hear that language, and all of us respond to it in different ways, but everybody hears the language. There’s something grand out there.
Then it says that God’s creation speaks in every place on the earth because the skies cover the whole earth. No matter which part of the earth you are in, whether on a continent, in a country, or on an island, wherever you are, you lift up your eyes, and you hear the sound of nature telling us there is something grand out there, something great out there. It speaks to everyone in every place; nobody can excuse themselves from this general revelation of God. What it tells us is that just by observing nature, by simply looking at the grand scale of nature, we come to a certain realization that there’s something bigger than ourselves, something that is far bigger than us somewhere out there. We may not know Him, but somewhere, there’s something bigger than ourselves.
So when you go to every culture and every nation, people have a sense of God. In every culture, in every part of the world, people have a sense of God. They may not fully understand Him or be fully aware of Him, but they are aware of Him, and that is what is called general revelation. Through general revelation, we get a sense of God because His creation is speaking to us. However, this general revelation is not enough for us to know God. You can know Him generally; you can call Him by different names, but you need to have a more specific knowledge of God, a more specialized knowledge of God. So beyond general revelation, there is specific or special revelation, and that will be what we’ll be studying later from the psalm as we move from God’s general revelation through His creation to God’s revelation through His word. His works speak to us, but clearly, His word helps us to know and understand Him in a more defined manner.
Now, sometimes when people only have a general revelation of God, they tend to worship creation instead of the Creator, and that leads to idolatry. They are so awed by the heavens and the heavenly bodies that they just worship them for who they are and not the one who brought them into being. But when we have special revelation, then we go beyond creation to know the Creator for Himself.
Let’s pray. Say with me, «Heavenly Father, I worship You as my Creator. Let my heart be drawn to You through Your handiwork. In Jesus' name, amen and amen.»