Declare His Glory

“O Lord, how manifold are your works!

In wisdom have you made them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.

Here is the sea, great and wide,

which teems with creatures innumerable,

living things both small and great.

There go the ships and Leviathan,

which you formed to play in it”

Psalm 104:24-26

Being close to the ocean always fills me with a sense of awe and of the Majesty of God.  The waters, teeming with life, seem to breathe in and breathe out His greatness, the sheer vastness overwhelming me with wonder for the creation and the Creator.  I was thinking about how everything on the earth, by its very being, brings Him praise. 

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork” (Psalm 19:1).

Human beings, however, are the only created ones made in the image of God, Imago Dei.  We are the only ones who have a choice as to whether we WILL praise him, the only ones with free will in the matter.  After his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, where his disciples and the crowd were shouting praises to Jesus, the Pharisees asked him to rebuke his disciples, but Jesus said, “If these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”  Nature will praise him if we won’t.

In his humanity, he came to serve us, but his divinity invites our worship.

We have a choice; we have an invitation.

Will you accept?