DIVERSE SPEECH

MIMES

MIMES ARE AN INTERESTING BUNCH.

I'VE NEVER MET SOMEONE THAT WANTED TO BE A MIME GROWING UP, HOWEVER, SOMEHOW, THERE ARE ACTORS THAT FIND THEIR WAY INTO THIS SPACE.

WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT A GREAT MIME IS THEY CAN EXPRESS AND COMMUNICATE A WIDE CANVAS OF EMOTIONS/STORIES WITHOUT USING A SINGLE WORD AND IT IS UNDERSTOOD BY ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES AND LANGUAGES.

IN OTHER WORDS, YOU COULD BE IN A THEATER WITH A MULTILINGUAL AUDIENCE BUT THEY WOULD ALL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MIME.

THE PSALMIST IS MAKING A SIMILAR POINT ABOUT CREATION.

PSALM 19:3

THE PSALMIST MAKES THIS DECLARATION ABOUT CREATION:

3 THERE IS NO SPEECH, NOR ARE THERE WORDS, [IN] WHOSE VOICE [IT] IS NOT HEARD.

THE PSALMIST WANTS TO MAKE THE POINT THAT THE CREATION IS A MIME. SPEAKING AND PERFORMING A POWERFUL, DYNAMIC LANGUAGE THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS.

SPURGEON

TO QUOTE SPURGEON, HE SAYS:

EVERY MAN MAY HEAR THE VOICES OF THE STARS. MANY ARE THE LANGUAGES OF TERRESTRIALS, TO CELESTIALS THERE IS BUT ONE, AND THAT ONE MAY BE UNDERSTOOD BY EVERY WILLING MIND. THE LOWEST HEATHEN ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE, IF THEY DO NOT DISCOVER THE INVISIBLE THINGS OF GOD IN THE WORKS WHICH HE HAS MADE. SUN, MOON, AND STARS ARE GOD'S TRAVELING PREACHERS; THEY ARE APOSTLES UPON THEIR JOURNEY CONFIRMING THOSE WHO REGARD THE LORD, AND JUDGES ON CIRCUIT CONDEMNING THOSE WHO WORSHIP IDOLS...THEIR TEACHING IS NOT ADDRESSED TO THE EAR, AND IS NOT UTTERED IN ARTICULATE SOUNDS; IT IS PICTORIAL, AND DIRECTED TO THE EYE AND HEART.

MAGI AND THE STAR

WE GET A HINT OF THIS KIND OF CREATION SPEAKING IN THE STORY OF JESUS AND THE WISE MEN. IN MATTHEW 2:2 THEY SAY:

"WHERE IS HE WHO HAS BEEN BORN KING OF THE JEWS? FOR WE SAW HIS STAR WHEN IT ROSE[B]AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM."

IN OTHER WORDS, SPURGEON'S "TRAVELING PREACHERS" WERE PROCLAIMING THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH AND THE WISE MEN WERE LISTENING.

LISTENING TO CREATION

CARVING OUT SPACE TO SIT ON THE FRONT PORCH, SIT ON THE BACK PATIO, OR LINGER AT THE TOP OF A HIKE TO SIMPLY LISTEN TO THE UNSPEAKING VOICE OF CREATION CAN BE A POWERFUL TOOL FOR ALLOWING THE REALITY OF GOD TO GROW IN YOUR HEART.

IT'S ALSO A REMINDER THAT AS OUR CITIES BECOME INCREASINGLY MULTI-LINGUAL, WE CAN TRUST THAT GOD IS SPEAKING THROUGH CREATION TO EVERY TRIBE, EVERY TONGUE, AND EVERY LANGUAGE THROUGH THE CREATION.