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I love, love, love the way this group redoes hymns and will buy every album they ever make. I encourage you to do the same.

Psalm 104

Many times we don’t look beyond Psalm 19:1 or Romans 1:19-20 to talk about God’s great glory displayed in creation, yet the Psalms is littered with beautiful phrases and songs taking this idea into specifics. Psalm 104 is one of these. The Psalmist sings of God rising up the mountains and sinking down the valleys (v. 8) while giving a boundary to the water so that it might not cover the earth again (v. 9). Beautiful verses talk of everything from the trees God created to wild donkeys filling their thirsty mouths with water from a spring. All these ideas can be summed up in v. 24: “O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.”

Not only does the Psalmist talk about the glory, but the proper response to the glory. He expounds in the closing verses:

“May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works, who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke! I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord. Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!”

A.W. Tozer for the Day

In a recent chapter I was reading out of his book "The Knowledge of the Holy", A.W. Tozer was discussing God's eternity. He beautifully was able to maneuver this topic back to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Tozer explains God's eternality in such stirring quotes as "He (God) has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays". He then goes on to talk of God's eternity present in God's image within us (Gen 1:27) in the sense that "we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time". This is where the gospel comes to the rescue. I'll let Tozer speak for himself:

"The ancient image of God whispers within every man of everlasting hope; somewhere he will continue to exist. Still he cannot rejoice, for the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world trouble his conscience, frightening him with proofs of guilt and evidences of coming death. So is he ground between the upper millstone of hope and the nether stone of fear.
Just here the sweet relevancy of the Christian message appears. 'Jesus Christ...hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.'" (Tozer "The Knowledge of the Holy" 41-42)