Once a man has lived with mountains you can’t offer him a home with a prairie dog.”
–Louis L’Amour (Treasure Mountain)
“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
–Psalm 16:11 (NKJV)
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It’s been a few days since we left Psalm 104. Read over it again before looking into this final portion of it. William Barclay has said regarding Psalm 104, “This psalm never loses sight of the sheer majesty and holiness of God, and at the same time sees that God is in the world which he has made.” Yes, we have problems, troubles, and woes as we travel through this life, but, oh the wonder of it all–God is in control of our lives until our last breath.
24 — O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions–
25 — This great and wide sea, in which are innumerable teeming things, living things both small and great.
26 — There the ships sail about; there is that Leviathan which You have made to play there.
27 — These all wait for You, that You may give them their food in due season.
28 — What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good.
29 — You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 — You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth.
31 — May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.
32 — He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.
33 — I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34 — May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the LORD.
35 — May sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD! (NKJV)
Just look at the world; it reveals the divine genius of God’s wisdom–His creation. Look at the beauty, the diversity, balance, and order that is revealed. God is marvelous in His works of creation. As we go through life, seemingly everything being alright, all of a sudden the Leviathan comes to play. A nightmare for ships, a source of terror for sailors, but take heart–God is there.
Creation, including man, depends upon God for its birth, life, and length of life (Lawson). Look at verse 30, when the Spirit of God comes, there is life–new life. We, as believers, can look at our travels through this world as a child of God. We should be praising God because of his wondrous creation, but more so, because of the new life through the blood of Jesus Christ. The power of God is beyond understanding. He just has to look at the earth and it trembles. The mountains melt with His touch. We must sing out His praises. Our gladness is not in creation, but in the God of creation. No matter what happens, no matter what transpires we must seek to make our meditation sweet to Him.
Here we see the real value of human life. “Man is created by God with the capacity to enter into a personal relationship with him. Here is the highest purpose of man’s existence, his loftiest reason for being.” (Steven Lawson) Read slowly and meditatively verses 30-35. Make it your purpose to live to know God.
“Through all eternity to Thee
A joyful song I’ll raise;
But O! eternity’s too short
To utter all Thy praise.”
–John Addison
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It’s been a few days since we left Psalm 104. Read over it again before looking into this final portion of it. William Barclay has said regarding Psalm 104, “This psalm never loses sight of the sheer majesty and holiness of God, and at the same time sees that God is in the world which he has made.” Yes, we have problems, troubles, and woes as we travel through this life, but, oh the wonder of it all–God is in control of our lives until our last breath.
24 — O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions–
25 — This great and wide sea, in which are innumerable teeming things, living things both small and great.
26 — There the ships sail about; there is that Leviathan which You have made to play there.
27 — These all wait for You, that You may give them their food in due season.
28 — What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good.
29 — You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 — You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth.
31 — May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.
32 — He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.
33 — I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34 — May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the LORD.
35 — May sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD! (NKJV)
Just look at the world; it reveals the divine genius of God’s wisdom–His creation. Look at the beauty, the diversity, balance, and order that is revealed. God is marvelous in His works of creation. As we go through life, seemingly everything being alright, all of a sudden the Leviathan comes to play. A nightmare for ships, a source of terror for sailors, but take heart–God is there.
Creation, including man, depends upon God for its birth, life, and length of life (Lawson). Look at verse 30, when the Spirit of God comes, there is life–new life. We, as believers, can look at our travels through this world as a child of God. We should be praising God because of his wondrous creation, but more so, because of the new life through the blood of Jesus Christ. The power of God is beyond understanding. He just has to look at the earth and it trembles. The mountains melt with His touch. We must sing out His praises. Our gladness is not in creation, but in the God of creation. No matter what happens, no matter what transpires we must seek to make our meditation sweet to Him.
Here we see the real value of human life. “Man is created by God with the capacity to enter into a personal relationship with him. Here is the highest purpose of man’s existence, his loftiest reason for being.” (Steven Lawson) Read slowly and meditatively verses 30-35. Make it your purpose to live to know God.
“Through all eternity to Thee
A joyful song I’ll raise;
But O! eternity’s too short
To utter all Thy praise.”
–John Addison