How We Know About God

OUR understanding of God comes from three levels of His self-disclosure: the general revelation of Himself through nature, which He created (Psalm 19:1–6), the special revelation of His Word (Psalm 19:7–11), and the particular work of God in one’s individual life (Psalm 19:12–14). After looking first at the firmament of God’s world and then at the Word, which is the foundation of that world, David focuses on his own infirmities in his inner world.

Psalm 19 is typical of many psalms that look back and forth, up and down, outward and inward (compare Psalm 139). David realized how much he needed God to provide an integrated understanding of life. We can gain similar insight by using these multi-focused psalms first to consider God’s glorious universe, then to apply the spiritual disciplines of confession, Bible study, and prayer to our own lives, and finally to bear public witness to what we have come to know, see, and experience of God above, God around us, and God within.

Courtesy of Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Commentary
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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