Its All a Worship Song

Psalm 148 is the ultimate call to worship God. The Psalmist begins with the highest heavens and descends and descends to the littles people on Earth - children... calling all areas of God's creation to worship Him.

 Psalm 148 (ESV) Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights! 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! 3 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! 
     4 Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created. 6 And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away. 
     7 Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps, 8 fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word! 9 Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars! 10 Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds! 11 Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth! 12 Young men and maidens together, old men and children! 
      13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven. 14 He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD!

You know what this means? Every study of Creation is meant to end in praise.

Roy Clements says it like this about Psalm 148:

He begins in the field of cosmology: angels, stars and waters above the skies. Then when he has satisfied himself that he has exhausted the celestial realm, he turns to the terrestrial. Marine biology: great sea creatures and all ocean depths. Meteorology: lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding. Geomorphology and dendrology: mountains and hills, fruit trees and all cedars. Zoology and ornithology: wild animals, cattle, small creatures and flying birds. And to cap it all, political geography, sociology and anthropology."

The often heard objection to religion (or faith) is science. But it was never meant to be so. The modern scientific movement we know today has it's roots in Christian thought. Many of the greatest scientists we still study were Christians. I recently read about the most noted scientist perhaps in regards to modern history and its developments: Blaise Pascal. 

James MacDonald writes about him:
     "Blaise Pascal lived just 39 years. But in that short time he invented and influenced much that we take for granted today: from calculating machines to the first public transportation system, probability and decision theory, as well as the mathematics of risk management. He proved the existence of the vacuum, which set the stage for quantum physics. His statistical-probabilities analysis envisioned the insurance industry, management science, racing forms, lotteries, and Las Vegas. Pascal's thoughts stand behind the jet engine, internal-combustion motors, the atomic bomb, and mass media. All of this and much more came from the mind of Blaise Pascal.

    (When) he died, one of his aides found a crumpled piece of paper pinned to the inside of his coat, where Pascal had written in his journal:

     The year of grace 1654 Monday, 23 November … From about half past ten at night until about half past midnight FIRE. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob— Not the God of the philosophers and of the learned. Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace. God of Jesus Christ. My God and your God. Forgetfulness of the world and of everything, except God. He can only be found by the ways taught in the Gospel. Grandeur of the human soul. Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you. Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy. Let me not be separated from him forever. May I never forget his words. Amen." 

     - Vertical Church, James MacDonald.

Pascal had it completely right: To study and discover creation is a GODLY endeavor. To unearth the mysteries of our universe is a GODLY quest. In finding just how awesome our world is and how powerful the creation can be - we are fulfilling our God-given mandate in the garden to rule and subdue... and more importantly, we are discovering the complexities and wonders of our God who created all of them.

Every new understanding is meant to lead us higher in proclaiming the glorious majesty of God!

Let us LEARN, DISCOVER and WORSHIP!


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