Psalm 136:3-9. This psalm of thanksgiving is a litany of the wondrous acts of God followed, after each line, with "for his steadfast love endures forever." These verses recite how God alone does great wonders. God, by understanding, made the heavens; he spread out the earth upon the waters; he made the "great lights" - the sun to rule the day and the moon and stars to rule over night. All of creation shows God's love, it is shown in its beauty, it is shown in its order, it is shown in its usefulness, it is shown simply by its existence.

How wonderful is our God?!! This psalm just really makes me see it as I recite the amazing list of his works! I also like how even though this was written long before humanity understood how the universe and the earth came into existence, we can tell that God's revelation is at work. The writer understands that the heavens were "formed," that the sun, the moon, and the stars were in some way formed and made to participate in the orderly following and counting of day and night. The writer attributes this to God's "understanding," which is a wonderful way of saying that God merely thought the universe into existence in all of its beauty and order!

God reveals things to us as our human understanding can grasp them. He is always leading us to a more perfect understanding of him and of reality, but he knows that that takes time in our individual lives and in the overall history of humanity. But what he reveals to us is always true, it will never be contradicted by future discoveries, only further explained. Thus, this pslam writer understood that the universe was formed and came to be in a certain orderly way, and we can now back that up by our understanding of how the planets and stars were formed.

We can see this throughout the Bible, for example, in the story of creation in Genesis we read a much compacted and simplified story of the creation of the universe from the Big Bang to the evolution of human beings. God gets us to the point where we become what he intended us to be and then he breathes our souls into us! For his steadfast love endures forever.