Praise the Lord from the earth,
you great sea creatures and all ocean depths, lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding, you mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, wild animals and all cattle, small creatures and flying birds, kings of the earth and all nations, you princes and all rulers on earth, young men and women, old men and children (Psalm 148) All creation worships God. Do we think or reflect on this? Does all creation really praise God? Does the sea, mountain, valley, plain, show, forest, desert, waterfall and river worship God? The scripture says yes they do? But how? They worship God when they display their beauty, when they produce beautiful and gentle sound, when they produce fruits for food or flowers to please man. These are just a few examples. We need to see and behold how nature worship God. Research found that every day we are surrounded by millions of ultrasonic songs. Did you know, for instance, that whales sing and their songs can travel thousands of miles underwater? Even earthworms make faint staccato sounds! A single hydrogen atom emits one hundred frequencies which is more musical than a grand piano, which only emits 88 frequencies. One science writer Lewis Thomas summed it up it this way: "If we had better hearing, and could discern the [singing] of sea birds, the rhythmic [drumming] of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of [flies] hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet." All creation worships it's Creator. When we lift our praise to God we join a larger song of worship. However, there is a big difference between nature and animal praise and that of human praise. Nature and animal praises are offered based on instinct (or natural). Human worship is voluntary based on free will. God is seeking those who will join the song. Jesus said, "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks" (John 4:23). What creation does best for us is to point our attention to the Creator. Then we can worship Him. Makoto Fujimura, Christian artist and thinker, said, "Perhaps the greatest thing we can do as a Christian community is to behold. Behold our God. Behold his creation. There is so much beauty around us. Jesus seemed to indicate that beauty is a door into the Gospel." Let us pray: Mighty Creator, when we consider the works of Your hands, we bow in awe before You. Your power, majesty, imagination, knowledge and love impressed into Your creation calls us to praise Your name and join the song of what You have made. We praise You! For You alone deserve glory, honor and praise, forever! In Jesus name, amen.. |
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