The heavens declare,
or are declaring, for the continuance of their testimony
is intended by the participles employed; every moment
God's existence, power, wisdom and goodness, are being
sounded abroad by the heavenly heralds which shine upon
us from above. He who would guess at divine sublimity
should gaze upward into the starry vault; he who would
imagine infinity must peer into the boundless expanse;
he who desires to see divine wisdom should consider the
balancing of the orbs; he who would know divine fidelity
must mark the regularity of the planetary motions; and
he who would attain some conceptions of divine power,
greatness, and majesty, must estimate the forces of
attraction, the magnitude of the fixed stars, and the
brightness of the whole celestial train. It is not
merely glory that the heavens declare, but the "glory of
God, "for they deliver to us such unanswerable arguments
for a conscious, intelligent, planning, controlling, and
presiding Creator, that no unprejudiced person can
remain unconvinced by them. The testimony given by the
heavens is no mere hint, but a plain, unmistakable
declaration; and it is a declaration of the most
constant and abiding kind. Yet for all this, to what
avail is the loudest declaration to a deaf man, or the
clearest showing to one spiritually blind?
God the Holy Ghost must illuminate
us, or all the suns in the milky way never will.
