Psalm 136:5 gives us a wonderful Truth when it voices praise: “To Him that by wisdom made the heavens.”

Here the verb “made” is spelled “asah” in Hebrew. It means “to fashion, manufacture, accomplish, prepare.” This is a totally different verb that “bara,” used in Genesis 1:1, which in essence means “to make something out of nothing!”

So, I deduce that God, when it comes to His “Heavens,” is still making and forming and “dressing” things! (“Made” is a participle here, suggesting “ongoing” divine construction!)

Then, no wonder astronomers are aghast as they view the universe. Literally mankind has not yet got over what the Hubble space telescope has revealed, the color and diversity and activity constantly astir!

No telling what this new telescope (James Webb) will yet see, all of which will be a manifestation of the “Wisdom” of God, thinking back to Psalm 136:5. This noun also is NOT the normal word for wisdom! Here “tabun” means “discretion, reason, intelligence!”

I love looking into the night sky. When the children were younger some Friday evenings I would drive them to a nearby planetarium and telescope to view the heavens! (At the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, Friday was “public” night back then.) We saw the rings of Saturn once, and the moon another time, real close it seemed!

Again … God’s Wisdom on display!

As I write this Article our area is forecast to get snow. Falling from the heavens! God once, when speaking to His servant Job, asked: “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?”

See!

God’s Wisdom again … in a snowflake!

I bought a picture book the other week off the discount shelf at a Books-a-Million store. The Heavens, in full color!

God’s Wisdom captured digitally! Or a display of that Wisdom!

Next time the clouds are gone … look up!

And worship the Wise God who “formed” all that beauty!

Those things did not evolve, they were made!

Do you know the Architect, the Artist?

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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