Psalm 92-97 We Don't Know The MEANING Of Praise

Sin has caused us to lose sight of God’s majesty and His worthiness of praise.  These psalms seem to show how much more aware people were of these facts than we seem to be today.  They still seemed to have an awareness that nature itself praises its Creator, stifled as it became by man’s sin which fundamentally altered Creation.

“Let the skies rejoice and the earth be glad; let the sea and everything in it shout.  Let the fields and everything in them rejoice.  Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the Lord, because He is coming.”

Why would anyone ever imagine verses like this, unless they were true?  This isn’t just the work of an artsy poet imagining frivolous things to try and capture the hearts of an audience.  There had to be truth in these words or God would not have allowed them to become part of our Bible!

All creation, in the beginning, praised its Creator and resonated with Him in expressing joy at its existence.  Skies weren’t just mixes of gases and water vapor.  They are trillions of atoms dancing before their God, working in concert to glorify the One who made them.  Yet because of our sin, they now must struggle to do what once came naturally.  Oceans speak, trees sing, rocks cry out.  But right now they’ve been muted.  They are capable of praise, and they long for the day when they can once again be free to express what they know – that our God and Creator is infinitely worthy of praise.  When God someday makes everything new, I imagine we’ll be blown away by the music all around us that right now we are unable to hear.  And as we finally do hear creation praising God as it once was able to do, we too will be led to appropriately praise Him for His greatness.

Father, I want to hear rocks cry out and trees singing about You.  We think of them as nothing, yet one day they will show us up with the honor they bestow upon You with their praise.

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford