Creation amplified…Psalm 104
Finishing a project is always fun, whether a report, a quilt, a song, a painting or launching a teen successfully…or holding that new born baby…we stand back satisfied…knowing there is still work ahead…but finishing something well warms the soul and mind…
Now we take a multitude of pictures showing that piece of time, recording the finished work…
I thought of that, while reading Psalm 104…it gives a more visual word example of creation…and the God of the Universe who did the work with his Word…how he put everything into its place and saw that it was good…
Thank YOU…
While Psalm 104 doesn’t follow Genesis 1 exactly, it reads like a poetic version…amplifying the words spoken…adding more descriptions…all the while giving credence to creation by a Great God who saw his work and was pleased and saw that each facet was good…
He set the earth on its foundations,so that it should never be moved.
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;the waters stood above the mountains.
At your rebuke they fled;at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
You set a boundary that they may not pass,so that they might not again cover the earth.
You make springs gush forth in the valleys;they flow between the hills; they give drink to every beast of the field;the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;they sing among the branches.
From your lofty abode you water the mountains;the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.
You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate,that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man,oil to make his face shineand bread to strengthen man's heart.
The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
In them the birds build their nests;the stork has her home in the fir trees.
The high mountains are for the wild goats;the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
He made the moon to mark the seasons;the sun knows its time for setting.
You make darkness, and it is night,when all the beasts of the forest creep about.
The young lions roar for their prey,seeking their food from God. When the sun rises, they steal awayand lie down in their dens. Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening. 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. These all look to you,to give them their food in due season.
When you give it to them, they gather it up;when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,and you renew the face of the ground.
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.
Ps.104.5-22104.24-28, 30-34
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
And God saw that the light was good.
And God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.”
And it was so.
God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas.
And God saw that it was good.
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.”
And it was so.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so.
And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.
And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”
So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him;male and female he created them.
And God blessed them.
And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.
You shall have them for food.
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.”
And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Gen.1.1-31
