Think about it: God didn't leave us a detailed instruction manual for creation, but instead, He set up these amazing physical laws that govern everything in nature. And these laws are constantly working, right now, according to His will. Pretty awesome, right?
Nature itself shouts that God is real. Psalm 19:11 puts it perfectly: "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." It's like the whole universe is a giant billboard for His existence.
As believers, it's important for us to grasp that the things we can't see about God—His incredible power, His majesty—are visible all around us, woven into the fabric of creation. It's mind-blowing!
God loves it when we're awestruck by His handiwork. Everything around us, from the smallest bug to the vastness of space, was made so we could catch a glimpse of His love for us, a tiny hint of how wonderful He truly is. And when we get that, it just makes us want to worship Him with all our hearts.
So take a moment to appreciate the beauty around you. See God in it. Thank Him for it. Every sunrise is a fresh reminder of His mercy in our lives.
And they, when they heard it, lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, O Lord, thou that {\b didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is}:
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:\par\tab The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Praise ye him, sun and moon:\par\tab Praise him, all ye stars of light.Praise him, ye heavens of heavens,\par\tab And ye waters that are above the heavens.Let them praise the name of Jehovah;\par\tab For he commanded, and they were created.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,\par\tab The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth;\par\tab And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;\par\tab Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;Let the field exult, and all that is therein;\par\tab Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy
O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works!\par\tab In wisdom hast thou made them all:\par\tab The earth is full of thy riches.
Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.\par
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.
I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me.
He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
{\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab The heavens declare the glory of God;\par\tab And the firmament showeth his handiwork.Day unto day uttereth speech,\par\tab And night unto night showeth knowledge.There is no speech nor language;\par\tab Their voice is not heard.Their line is gone out through all the earth,\par\tab And their words to the end of the world.\par\tab In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, {\i even} his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
{\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab The heavens declare the glory of God;\par\tab And the firmament showeth his handiwork.
O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works!\par\tab In wisdom hast thou made them all:\par\tab The earth is full of thy riches.Yonder is the sea, great and wide,\par\tab Wherein are things creeping innumerable,\par\tab Both small and great beasts.
then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,\par\tab The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;What is man, that thou art mindful of him?\par\tab And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;\par\tab And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee;\par\tab And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.Who knoweth not in all these,\par\tab That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,\par\tab And the breath of all mankind?
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.\par
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness;\par\tab And the hills are girded with joy.
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,\par\tab Is mount Zion, {\i on} the sides of the north,\par\tab The city of the great King.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it,\par\tab Thou greatly enrichest it;\par\tab The river of God is full of water:\par\tab Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.Thou waterest its furrows abundantly;\par\tab Thou settlest the ridges thereof:\par\tab Thou makest it soft with showers;\par\tab Thou blessest the springing thereof.Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;\par\tab And thy paths drop fatness.They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness;\par\tab And the hills are girded with joy.The pastures are clothed with flocks;\par\tab The valleys also are covered over with grain;\par\tab They shout for joy, they also sing.\par
Praise Jehovah from the earth,\par\tab Ye sea-monsters, and all deeps.Fire and hail, snow and vapor;\par\tab Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;Mountains and all hills;\par\tab Fruitful trees and all cedars;Beasts and all cattle;\par\tab Creeping things and flying birds;
Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
{\b A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof;\par\tab The world, and they that dwell therein.For he hath founded it upon the seas,\par\tab And established it upon the floods.
He loveth righteousness and justice:\par\tab The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Jehovah is good to all;\par\tab And his tender mercies are over all his works.All thy works shall give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah;\par\tab And thy saints shall bless thee.
Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
He sendeth forth springs into the valleys;\par\tab They run among the mountains;They give drink to every beast of the field;\par\tab The wild asses quench their thirst.By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation;\par\tab They sing among the branches.He watereth the mountains from his chambers:\par\tab The earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,\par\tab And herb for the service of man;\par\tab That he may bring forth food out of the earth,
Hearken unto this, O Job:\par\tab Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.Dost thou know how God layeth {\i his charge} upon them,\par\tab And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds,\par\tab The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast;\par\tab But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Who covereth the heavens with clouds,\par\tab Who prepareth rain for the earth,\par\tab Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.He giveth to the beast his food,\par\tab {\i And} to the young ravens which cry.
And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.\par
To him that spread forth the earth above the waters;\par\tab For his lovingkindness {\i endureth} for ever:To him that made great lights;\par\tab For his lovingkindness {\i endureth} for ever:The sun to rule by day;\par\tab For his lovingkindness {\i endureth} for ever;The moon and stars to rule by night;\par\tab For his lovingkindness {\i endureth} for ever:
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?\par
And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
For every beast of the forest is mine,\par\tab And the cattle upon a thousand hills.I know all the birds of the mountains;\par\tab And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
In his hand are the deep places of the earth;\par\tab The heights of the mountains are his also.The sea is his, and he made it;\par\tab And his hands formed the dry land.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
The high mountains are for the wild goats;\par\tab The rocks are a refuge for the conies.He appointed the moon for seasons:\par\tab The sun knoweth his going down.Thou makest darkness, and it is night,\par\tab Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.The young lions roar after their prey,\par\tab And seek their food from God.The sun ariseth, they get them away,\par\tab And lay them down in their dens.Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works!\par\tab In wisdom hast thou made them all:\par\tab The earth is full of thy riches.
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,\par\tab {\i And} look well to thy herds:For riches are not for ever:\par\tab And doth the crown endure unto all generations?The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself,\par\tab And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.The lambs are for thy clothing,\par\tab And the goats are the price of the field;And {\i there will be} goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household,\par\tab And maintenance for thy maidens.\par
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.
Praise ye Jehovah.\par\tab Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens:\par\tab Praise him in the heights.Praise ye him, all his angels:\par\tab Praise ye him, all his host.Praise ye him, sun and moon:\par\tab Praise him, all ye stars of light.Praise him, ye heavens of heavens,\par\tab And ye waters that are above the heavens.Let them praise the name of Jehovah;\par\tab For he commanded, and they were created.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
{\b A Song of Ascents.}\par\par\tab I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains:\par\tab From whence shall my help come?My help {\i cometh} from Jehovah,\par\tab Who made heaven and earth.
The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Know ye that Jehovah, he is God:\par\tab It is he that hath made us, and we are his;\par\tab We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father:but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
For thou didst form my inward parts:\par\tab Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:\par\tab Wonderful are thy works;\par\tab And that my soul knoweth right well.My frame was not hidden from thee,\par\tab When I was made in secret,\par\tab {\i And} curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance;\par\tab And in thy book they were all written,\par\tab {\i Even} the days that were ordained {\i for me},\par\tab When as yet there was none of them.