Psalm 148:9

Psalm 148:9

Mountains and hills and trees

 The psalmist is growing in excitement as He surveys the earth and embraces the notion that the created world praises the Lord. We’ve already looked at some of the aspects of the created world whose function is to represent the Lord and in so doing to gain Him glory and praise. We’ve visited the ocean depths and pondered the weather! Now we are to lift up our eyes to the mountains and hills, and then to survey the trees that cover the earth from the mighty cedars to orchards and fruit plantations planted by men. All of these gloriously beautiful and dramatic additions to creation have one primary objective and that is to “Praise the Lord.” We, as a human race have taken all of the natural wonders and turned them to our benefit and forced them to serve us. It would be a crazy world where we were unable to use wood for construction or to pick apples, pears, oranges and the rest, from our fruit trees. But, in so doing we should learn first to take in their beauty or their grandeur and see the stamp of the Creator in all that He has made. These are objects that give Him praise!

Mountains and hills are the stuff of legends, who doesn’t like to climb them and survey the views that they offer? These are God’s vantage points, constructed to allow us a glimpse of the vistas that He Imagined, designed and brought into being. Everything is placed within His design and fashioned down to the tiniest molecule to allow creation to flourish and to create an environment where life may prosper and those who are wise enough can embrace the goodness of God. I ask you today to go out and take your own survey, look at what God has done, see it with fresh eyes, view the trees and, if you are able, climb a hill and relish the treasures that it allows you access to. Be amazed, imagine what it would be like without the creative genius of our Maker and then give thanks for what He has done. “Praise the Lord!”

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