Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
When I was a little boy I had a book about Grandpa Bunny Bunny. He was the founder of Bunnyville and the father and grandpa of many little bunnies. He was dearly loved by them all. He taught his children and grandchildren how to paint Easter eggs and spring flowers and autumn leaves. People would see the incredible beauty around them and wonder where it all came from. But the little bunnies would laugh, because they knew it was Grandpa Bunny Bunny’s doing.
Then came a day when Grandpa Bunny Bunny told all the little bunnies that it was time for him to leave – and then he was gone. A few days later, after a rain, there was a sunset of incredible color. All the little bunnies who loved him so, knew that he was still painting. The colorful sky was the work of their beloved Grandpa. In my family, we referred to such colorful sunsets as “Grandpa Bunny Bunny” skies.
So many people are blind to the wonder of creation. Others, instead of recognizing the heavens as evidence of His existence, struggle with questions that deny the reality of what they are seeing. The heavens declare God’s glory – but they are also designed to provoke a response in each of us to find the One who created them. The “creator” wants to be found by the “created”.
When we look at the stars and the skies; when we see a glorious sunset or enjoy the beauty around us – we get to recognize them as the work of our beloved Lord. They are not the work of some omnipotent, unknowable, distant being. We are able to view the wonder in the context of our love relationship with Him.
While God’s greatness and power are beyond our imagining, it never ceases to amaze me that through Jesus, we belong to Him – and that He loves us so! As I sit and write this, I’m laughing and grinning with joyous wonder because He made me His. The God who made the heavens knows my name and made me one of His sons. WOW! The wonder of the heavens pales in comparison to that!
