06/03          Psalm 104:30-35

30 When you give them your breath,[d] life is created,
    and you renew the face of the earth.
31 May the glory of the Lord continue forever!
    The Lord takes pleasure in all he has made!
32 The earth trembles at his glance;
    the mountains smoke at his touch.
33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
    I will praise my God to my last breath!
34 May all my thoughts be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.
35 Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth;
    let the wicked disappear forever.
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord!

PRAISE

Praise our wonderful Lord.

Praise Him for His creation.

Praise Him for His intense involvement.

Praise His that He created you.

Praise with every breath.

Praise the Lord God, King of the Universe.

06/02          Psalm 104:24-29

24 O Lord, what a variety of things you have made!
    In wisdom you have made them all.
    The earth is full of your creatures.
25 Here is the ocean, vast and wide,
    teeming with life of every kind,
    both large and small.
26 See the ships sailing along,
    and Leviathan,[c] which you made to play in the sea.

27 They all depend on you
    to give them food as they need it.
28 When you supply it, they gather it.
    You open your hand to feed them,
    and they are richly satisfied.
29 But if you turn away from them, they panic.
    When you take away their breath,
    they die and turn again to dust.

CREATIVITY

God created everything.

When we look at his creation, we are astonished. 

Amazing creativity and amazing value. 

Everything fits.

Beautiful.

06/01          Psalm 104:10-23

10 You make springs pour water into the ravines,
    so streams gush down from the mountains.
11 They provide water for all the animals,
    and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 The birds nest beside the streams
    and sing among the branches of the trees.
13 You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home,
    and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
14 You cause grass to grow for the livestock
    and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—
15     wine to make them glad,
olive oil to soothe their skin,
    and bread to give them strength.
16 The trees of the Lord are well cared for—
    the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
17 There the birds make their nests,
    and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.
18 High in the mountains live the wild goats,
    and the rocks form a refuge for the hyraxes.[b]
19 You made the moon to mark the seasons,
    and the sun knows when to set.
20 You send the darkness, and it becomes night,
    when all the forest animals prowl about.
21 Then the young lions roar for their prey,
    stalking the food provided by God.
22 At dawn they slink back
    into their dens to rest.
23 Then people go off to their work,
    where they labor until evening.
DETAIL

Amazing detail.

God was and is intimately involved in His creation.

He loves you. 

05/31                  Psalm 104:1-9
1 Let all that I am praise the Lord.
O Lord my God, how great you are!
    You are robed with honor and majesty.
2     You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
3     you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.
You make the clouds your chariot;
    you ride upon the wings of the wind.
4 The winds are your messengers;
    flames of fire are your servants.[a]
5 You placed the world on its foundation
    so it would never be moved.
6 You clothed the earth with floods of water,
    water that covered even the mountains.
7 At your command, the water fled;
    at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.
8 Mountains rose and valleys sank
    to the levels you decreed.
9 Then you set a firm boundary for the seas,
    so they would never again cover the earth.
GOD

He created all things.

He is in control.

King of the Universe.

Jesus is Lord of all. 

05/30                  Psalm 19:1

1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God.
    The skies display his craftsmanship.

SEE

No one can deny the existence of God,

Look at His creation.

We owe God everything.

We bend to knee to Him in wisdom and peace. 

He gives us His wisdom and peace. 

All around us we see the magnificence of His creation. 

God is good all the time. 

05/29                  Psalm 45:4

4 In your majesty, ride out to victory,
    defending truth, humility, and justice.
    Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds!

AWESOME

Our God is an awesome God.

He is Creator of all things.

He loves His creation, especially mankind,

Which He created to love and honor Him.

We most often walk only with our steps,

But prayerfully all of us will bend to the knee,

To Jesus the Son, before He returns in judgment. 

05/28                  2 Peter 1:16-17 

16 For we were not making up clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We saw his majestic splendor with our own eyes 17 when he received honor and glory from God the Father. The voice from the majestic glory of God said to him, “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy.”

GOD

God was here and we didn’t know Him.

He came as a babe in a manger in Bethlehem. 

He lived a perfect life.

He died to pay the price of our sinfulness. 

By the power of His Father, King of the Universe,

Jesus, the Son, was raised from the dead,

Having paid the price for our sin by His sacrifice on the cross. 

God was well pleased with His Son,

Who brings much joy to the Father.   

05/27                  Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

BEGINNING

There is a beginning to creation, it is God.

Jesus creates all things and in Him all things are held together. 

He creates with a Word. 

But, Father, Son and Holy Spirit were together,

And here before anything was, always existing, not created. 

05/26                  Exodus 15:11

11 “Who is like you among the gods, O Lord—
    glorious in holiness,
awesome in splendor,
    performing great wonders?

NONE

There is none like God. 

He is Holy and Glorious. 

He is KING of the Universe. 

Awesome and filled with radiant splendor.

His love for us is passionate. 

Our God is truly the ONLY God,

And we worship Him. 

05/25                  1 Chronicles 29:10-15
Then David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly:
“O Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel,[i] may you be praised forever and ever! 11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things. 12 Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength.
13 “O our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name! 14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us! 15 We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.

AMAZING

David carefully, fully praises God.

He parses the idea of praise perfectly. 

God is everything.

He created us to love Him. 

We rebel and want to love things we create: idols.

Yet our wonderful God and Father loves us too much,

To let us destroy our selves.

He seeks us with a blind passion, forgiving us of our sin. 

We are here for only a moment. 

Visitors and strangers on the stage of God’s creation.

Praise God for loving us.