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Key Concept for Spiritual Growth: Nature, the Bible, and Jesus are God’s chosen means for revealing Himself to us.

How would the sun sound if you could hear it sing?

The psalmist describes the sun as “rejoicing,” with each day “uttering speech,” and the heavens “declaring” the glory of God (Ps. 19:1–3). Obviously the sun does not have vocal cords. But scientists who study the sun may have reason to believe that the psalmist’s description of the sun may be a bit more literal than previously expected.

The sun is filled with sound. By measuring the vibrations on the sun’s surface, astronomers at Stanford University have recorded the pressure of acoustical waves in the sun. Because the solar sound waves are too low for the human ear to hear, scientists speed up the waves and compress the vibrations into solar music that sounds like humming. But that’s not all. Not only does the sun sing, it can do so in a vast range of notes. A piano has 88 keys; the sun has 10 million. That’s one colossal keyboard. — www.noao.edu/education/ighelio.

Now, the words “the heavens declare the glory of God” and “the sun . . . rejoiceth” take on a whole new meaning, quite literally singing to us of the warmth and vast range of His sustaining love.

Consider This: How else does the sun teach us about the majesty of God? What does the sun suggest about God’s ability to reach us, though He, too, is physically distant? What are the limits of the analogy?

Join us this week, January 3rd, 2009 at 9:30A as Elder Calvin Lester leads our discussion.