Think about this: God created everything. The earth, the sky, the whole world—it all belongs to Him. He made it all, just like Exodus 20:11 says: "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." He created it all perfectly, and He deserves all the praise for the amazing things He's done.
You know, we should really stand in awe of God and give Him glory. The time is coming when He will judge the world, so let's worship the One who made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and the springs of water.
When you're out enjoying nature – at the beach, in the mountains, or just looking at a beautiful tree – remember who made it all so beautiful and perfect. Let's give God all the glory He deserves.
A righteous one understands the soul of his animal; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for the service of man, to bring forth food out of the earth,
But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; and the fish of the sea shall declare it to you;who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this?In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh, even of man?
Behold the birds of the air; for they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them; are you not much better than they are?
If you see the ass of him who hates you lying under his burden, and would hold back from helping him, you shall surely help him.
Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O Jehovah, You keep man and beast.
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger within your gates.
Behold! I, even I, establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;and with every living creature that is with you, of the birds, of the cattle, and of every animal of the earth with you; from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth.
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the food of the snake. They will not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, says Jehovah.
Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise;who, having no guide, overseer, or ruler,provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
O Jehovah, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your riches.
And in that day I will cut a covenant for them, with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know between their right and their left hand, besides much cattle?
If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.You shall in every case let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may make your days longer.
You shall do your work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Also the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the cub lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
and for your cattle, and for the beast that is in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.
Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food?
But the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. In the same way you shall deal with your vineyard and with your oliveyard.
You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a stranger. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those with young.
You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:all sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and all that pass through the paths of the seas.
And He answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge; but he who hates correction is like a brute animal.
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or spend the night by your feed-trough?Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?Will you trust him, that he will return your seed and gather it to your grain-floor?
The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.
And coming near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain." Does God take care for oxen?
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me.I will take no bull out of your house, nor he-goats out of your folds.
For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts, even one thing happens to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all is vanity.
There the snake shall nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
And He said to them, What man among you will be, who will have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the sabbaths, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?How much better is a man then than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Can you observe the calving of deer?
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
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 if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls in it,the owner of the pit shall make it good and give silver to its owner. And the dead shall be his.
I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every animal of the field and every fowl of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap, having neither storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you better than the birds?
And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it. And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens, and all animals that move upon the earth.
And I will leave you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You shall fall on the open fields; you shall not be removed nor gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens.
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.
How precious is Your loving-kindness, O God! And the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of Your wing.
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
but those who wait on Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, Your altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, my King and my God.
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Why have you beaten your ass these three times? Behold! I went out to be an enemy to you, because your way is perverse before Me.And the ass saw Me and turned from Me these three times. Unless she had turned from Me, surely now I also would have killed you and saved her alive.
And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive; of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind.
You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift it up again.
Likewise you shall do with your oxen and with your sheep; it shall be with its dam seven days. On the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.He gives the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you shall eat among all the animals that are in the earth.Whatever divides the hoof, and is cloven-footed, chewing the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat.
You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.
Four things are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
And it shall be, you shall drink of the brook. And I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
You shall take with you every clean animal by sevens, the male and female. And take two of the animals that are not clean, the male and female.Also take of the fowls of the air by sevens, the male and the female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
you shall set apart to Jehovah every one that opens the womb, and every first-born that comes of any animal which you have; the males shall be Jehovah's.
But the seventh day shall be the sabbath of Jehovah your God. In it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger inside your gates, so that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like yourself.
And she brought forth her son, the First-born, and wrapped Him, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.
what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?For You have made him lack a little from God, and have crowned him with glory and honor.You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:all sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and all that pass through the paths of the seas.
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herb.But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.
Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with a mane?Can you make him leap like a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrifying.He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes on to meet the weapons.He mocks at fear, and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword.The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.He swallows the ground with quivering and rage; and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.When the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with different kinds. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed. And you shall not allow clothing mixed of linen and wool to come on you.
There are three things which go well in a march, yea, four that go well in walking:a lion is mighty among beasts and does not turn away for any;one girded in the loins; and a he-goat; and a king when his army is with him.
Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward?
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth after its kind; and it was so.
For it is the life of all flesh. Its blood is for the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh. For the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
He who kills an ox is is as if he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers an offering is as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for the service of man, to bring forth food out of the earth,and wine cheers the heart of man, and oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the things before will not be remembered, nor come to mind.
The wing of the ostrich beats joyously; though not like the stork's pinions for flight.For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them warm in the dust,and forgets that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may break them.She treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding.At the time she lifts herself up on high, she scorns the horse and its rider.
By them the birds of the heavens will have their place of rest; they sing among the branches.
As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused him to rest. So You led Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.