God’s Good Earth!
# 2 2021 Dev. Psalm 104:24. The Glory of God! Read all of Psalm 104. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Psalm 104:24 “How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.”
Ps. 101 starts a new series of 10 Psalms. This series is like a Psalm within the Psalms. The series is complementary from front to back: Ps. 101 corresponds with 110 and 102 with 109 and so on. Psalm 104 is a hymn to God our creator and could be a prayer as well. This Psalm begins with an introduction v.1 “Praise the Lord, O my soul…” and ends with an epilogue vs. 33-35. “I will sing to the Lord all my life;..”
While Ps. 103 is all about God’s compassion, Ps 104 is all about God’s glory.The Psalmist describes that glory in terms of His creation, in terms of His creative power and in terms of His complete power in His world, vs 2-4. We sometimes forget, many people don’t know and many don’t care but this world was created by God, vs. 5-9 and is maintained by God for the benefit of His people and His animals, vs.10-23. When we look up, put aside the brokenness in our lives, and open our hearts to God, we say: ““How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.” Vs. 24-26.
God created this world for us, His people, to care for us, for us to develop, for us to be able to enjoy our lives on God’s good earth. God’s first mandate to mankind Is: “to work it and take care of it” Gen 2:15-17 God set a boundary for mankind to test our obedience, sadly we failed and brought brokenness into our lives. But God is faithful he does not leave us in our folly, His Spirit is still in this world to hold things together, vs.27-30. We are created to worship God for the short time we are on this earth, to care for it and to work toward the good of others and for ourselves. We are on this earth to worship God, the Creator, not creation itself, vs. 31-32. At the present time we are being pulled in that direction.
The Psalmist ends his hymn with a prayer, he only wants what is positive, he will sing, praise, meditate and rejoice but rejects the negativity of sin. It is my prayer that as you think about this wonderful but troubled world, you look up, think about God, Father Son and Holy Spirit, who created this world, who created you, saves you in Jesus, and will take you to the place where you belong, your true home in heaven, God bless!
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