Meditations
on Christ in the Psalms
November 25, 2022
Let All That I Am Praise The Lord
O Lord, what a variety of things you have made!
In wisdom you have made them
all.
The earth is full of your
creatures.
Psalm 104:24
As I read Psalm 104, one of my favorite praise songs came to mind. Starry Host, inspired by Isaiah 40:26, praises the wonder of God’s creation.
To whom will you compare Me?
Or who is My equal? say the Holy
One,
Lift your eyes and look to the
heavens
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry
host,
One by one, and calls them each
by name
Because of His great power
And mighty strength
Not one of them is missing
Starry Host recorded by
Silers Bald
Copyright: 1998 Silers Bald Music
Down through the ages people have stood in awe of nature. John Muir was one of those people. He explored what is now Yosemite National Park and urged that the area be preserved as a national treasure because it was such a magnificent display of the beauty of God’s creation. Psalm 104 calls us to take time in life to observe the wonder of God’s creation. That is easy for me, as every time I walk through my neighborhood, I behold God’s lofty mountain grandeur.
The psalmist is going beyond the initial act of creation. The psalmist wants me to consider that God created . . . and is still creating. God created the very first sun rise and He created the magnificent sunset I saw on a recent evening. God not only created all things, but God is also proactively caring for His creation. God didn’t just create the first peach; He created the peaches I enjoyed all last summer.
The Apostle Paul reached this same conclusion when he wrote of the supremacy of Christ, “He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together” (Colossians 1:17, emphasis mine). What happens when Christ stops holding all creation together? The psalmist answers that in Psalm 104:29-30 (NRSV):
“When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their
breath, they die
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit, they are created;
and you renew the face of the ground.”
One of our joys of living here is standing on the ridge not far from our house and watching the hawks soaring above the valley. If the psalmist were standing next to us, he would have pointed out that God created those hawks. God also created the air currents that were keeping them aloft, and God created the trees where they nest, and because “the Lord takes pleasure in all he has made” (v. 31b), the Lord is smiling as he watches over His creations playing in the air.
My Takeaway: And God is smiling as He watches me standing in awe of his creation.
“I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my
last breath!
May all my thoughts be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the Lord.
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord!”
Psalm 104:33-34, 35b
Sē’lah
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(Selah is a word that appears in the
Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my
correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about
these things.)
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