Let the first thought with each other be love, Father, let our lights shine go on making us conscious of your unbreakable love.

Lord minister to these truths to us.

And now, Lord, as we turn to try to understand how to avail ourselves of the ministry of God in the sky. Help us to understand. Come and take these minutes we have together and make them maximally useful for the ongoing healing and hope and happiness and humility of our own

individual lives and families and ministries and our church.

Ask it in Jesus' mighty name, Amen.

Well, this morning's message was based on Psalm 19, and its main point was that the heavens are telling the glory of God and that the glory of God is a very happy

thing and that this is a ministry that God doesn't want you to miss out on. He doesn't want you to go through your

days neglecting the ministry of the skies. God does not speak in vain. It's a very sad thing when you're in a room with God and he's pouring out speech to you and you're watching the television.

Isn't that a sad thing? Or if you're out of doors and he is pouring forth speech to you from the sky and you never listen.

You never look up. That's a very sad thing because you don't get the benefit of the ministry.

God ministers through his word always.

And Psalm 19 very plainly says that day to day pours forth God's speech through the sun and the moon and the

stars and the clouds and the blue expanse and the thunder and the lightning and I think

tonight we can just expand it to everything that he has made.

And so I want to take these four words and just touch on three of them briefly perhaps and then dwell on one of them more at length

humility and hope and healing and happiness I said that when God ministers through the sky he brings those four things into our lives.

He advances those four things. We are less hopeful. We are less healed. We are less happy. We are less humble if we do not pay attention to the sky, I believe.

So let me take these and point you at least in a direction for your reflection and then perhaps

dwell more at length on one of them.

First we'll start with humility. And I suppose if we just took a little survey here and I ask you

which Psalm connects nature and humility many of you would remember the Psalm, wouldn't you?

Namely, Psalm 8.

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