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!”
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