David sings this psalm as a man who has spent nights outdoors with sheep. He has seen what city-dwellers miss: a sky thick with stars, a horizon untouched by skyline, a moon that travels its arc whether anyone watches or not. The psalm is his answer to anyone who says nature is silent. To David, nature is loud — and articulate.

From the writers we read together

Francis Schaeffer

L'Abri founder, author of How Should We Then Live?

Schaeffer made his life's argument that the modern crisis is not a question of God's existence but a question of his speech. We could imagine a deistic God — one who is there but does not speak. The God of Psalm 19 is the opposite: he is there and the heavens themselves cannot stop talking about him.

The implication is that any week we spend bored, distracted, or unmoored is a week we have stopped listening. Day to day pours out speech. Night to night reveals knowledge. The signal is on. The question is whether we are tuned in or whether the world's louder noises are crowding out a sky that has not stopped singing.