Psalm 148:5

Psalm 148:5

He is our Creator!

This verse gives us the reason why even inanimate objects are prompted to praise the Lord. It’s because He created them! The same principle applies to us, we may find 10,000 reasons why we should praise the Lord, but the first reason is simply that we exist! We can add up the events and circumstances, the moments and the experiences that we have enjoyed when the Lord has revealed Himself to us, but the first cause for celebration is that we have been granted life! He could have ignored us or left us out of his plans for planet earth but, no, He decided that we should be allowed to live in His world and He chose the parents that would make that possible. I am here, because God wanted me here. I live and breathe and enjoy the beauty of the planet because God enabled it to happen. We are incredibly privileged, to be born human and to be planted on the earth for our time. Not only that, but the Lord has organised our future as well, the fact that He made us for this life should convince us that He will be true to His promises for the next! 

It’s perhaps a little bit difficult for us humans to attribute similar sentiments to the heavenly bodies and to the sun and moon and stars. What do they know, they are just inanimate objects – or are they? The Psalms seem to suggest that they at least fulfil their functions because of the name of the Lord, they may not have cognitive skills like ours, but they are described as responding to the power and authority of their Maker, there is, perhaps, more to it than meets the eye! At the very least, the fact that these things fulfil their function, operate in carefully prescribed ways, and resolutely keep to the programme prepared for them, gives all of creation the resources to flourish and thrive. Maybe He does all that just for us – for me! What a God our Father is! Hallelujah! 

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