God's Love Song (1 of 2)
Series: Psalms of Love
Jeff Strite
Psalm 19:1-14
OPEN: According to "Ripley's Believe It or Not" the longest love letter ever was written by Marcel de Leclure in 1875. Marcel was an artist in Paris France and his letter contained the 3 word French phrase "je vous aime" (pronounced "shavou same") which means "I Love You." This wasn't just written down once... it was written down 1,875,000 times. And HE didn't even write the letter. He hired a scribe. He dictated that message - word for word (all 3 of them) - and then had the scribe read it back to him (remember, this was the same phrase written 1,875,000 times).
Reflecting on this love letter, Robert Ripley (the creator of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not") said "Never was love made manifest by as great an expenditure of time and effort."
(PAUSE) One person observed "That's ridiculous. How loving is it to just write the same thing a million times?" (Joel Pankow, Sermoncentral.com)
But that's how some people think sometimes.
By contrast - when God showed his love for David - David realized that God did far more than write down "I love you" a million times. In Psalm 19 David tells us HOW God showed His love. David starts out telling us: "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge." Psalm 19:1-2
David looked up at the heavens and saw God's love filling the night sky.
ILLUS: Abraham Lincoln said: "I never behold (the stars) that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God."
In our culture, where we spend so much time inside, we rarely get to experience the majesty of a starry heaven like David did. But - when we do - sometimes it's overwhelming.
In one of his Psalms, David wrote: "When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him ...
Series: Psalms of Love
Jeff Strite
Psalm 19:1-14
OPEN: According to "Ripley's Believe It or Not" the longest love letter ever was written by Marcel de Leclure in 1875. Marcel was an artist in Paris France and his letter contained the 3 word French phrase "je vous aime" (pronounced "shavou same") which means "I Love You." This wasn't just written down once... it was written down 1,875,000 times. And HE didn't even write the letter. He hired a scribe. He dictated that message - word for word (all 3 of them) - and then had the scribe read it back to him (remember, this was the same phrase written 1,875,000 times).
Reflecting on this love letter, Robert Ripley (the creator of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not") said "Never was love made manifest by as great an expenditure of time and effort."
(PAUSE) One person observed "That's ridiculous. How loving is it to just write the same thing a million times?" (Joel Pankow, Sermoncentral.com)
But that's how some people think sometimes.
By contrast - when God showed his love for David - David realized that God did far more than write down "I love you" a million times. In Psalm 19 David tells us HOW God showed His love. David starts out telling us: "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge." Psalm 19:1-2
David looked up at the heavens and saw God's love filling the night sky.
ILLUS: Abraham Lincoln said: "I never behold (the stars) that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God."
In our culture, where we spend so much time inside, we rarely get to experience the majesty of a starry heaven like David did. But - when we do - sometimes it's overwhelming.
In one of his Psalms, David wrote: "When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him ...
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