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| Psalm
150.6 (NIV) Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. |
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| If we could see how much you’re worth; your power, your might, your endless love, then surely we would never cease to praise you.* |
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The
writers of Bible commentaries like to debate about whom/what the psalmist was
speaking. Did he really mean everything
that has breath? Animals and bugs? Could we not keep in mind that while the
writer was inspired, he was also a poet? In spite of the sweet little stories
about the farm animals kneeling at the manger in Bethlehem, I’m pretty sure
that the psalmist is talking about humans. But . . .
Romans
1.19 says that what may be known about God is plain for us to see. Everything
in creation is a testimony to God’s power. Beauty. Intricacy. Precision.
Function. Even if the creature has no voice to say, “Praise the Lord,” God is
praised by its existence. As for those of us who can speak, our voices “fulfill
[their] highest function by praising [their] Creator.”* Let’s be
like Peter and John in Acts 4.20 when they said, “We cannot help speaking about
what we have seen and heard.”
When
the Pharisees asked him to rebuke his disciples for their exuberance, Jesus
replied, “I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” (Luke 19.40) Was Jesus being facetious or poetic? Or was
he speaking literally? If the Creator wills it, even things without breath will
praise the Lord!
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| The God of nature is not subject to the laws of nature.* |
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