Meditating on God and His Creation.
Once again, pondering the greatness of God elicits a 'whole being' kind of worship, as in Psalm 103.
God is pictured as using what, to us, are intangible, untamable things, like 'light' and the 'heavens' as garments or curtains. Those things that are truly big and almost beyond our ability to understand or really visualize, are small to their Creator.
The earth is but His footstool; the clouds His chariot. He walks on the wind. His angels serve Him.
He established the earth.....nothing can move it, save Him. He spoke......and the waters went to te places He designed for them, and there they will stay.
He created and set in motion nature, and rules it. He cares for His creation. His creatures are watered and fed, and have homes to rest in.
He cares for man too, providing food and useful things...like oil and wine which are mentioned specifically.
He places His creatures in appropriate places for them in the varying landscape of creation. Some for trees, some for high mountains, some for the rocks, some for the fields, and some for the waters.
He set out the lights that rule the day and night, putting them in motion and ruling them. Their courses are not changing. Seasons are marked by their rotations. Night creatures roam the night and return to their homes at daybreak, while man rises and goes about his work during the day.
God has made them all; they all serve Him and are dependent on Him for life and being. Indeed, the earth itself responds to His voice with trembling at His greatness.
After pondering all these things, the psalmist moves into a spontaneous outburst of praise.
But note verse 35....which sounds negative in light of the rest of the chapter:
"May sinners be consumed from the earth and the wicked be no more."
His goal here is to magnify the Name of the Lord. Wickedness in this world does anything but that. His desire is for anything that is in rebellion to Him be eradicated.......which will indeed be the case...When He returns.
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