I don't often think about the earth itself praising God. Even the birds and the horses and the rocks and the trees praise Him. They all proclaim His majesty. Today at the barn I listened to the old praise and worship CD from City Church. Three different birds sat on the fence across from my car for longer than usual. It was as if they were listening to the worship. As if a part of them remembered for a split second what it was like when Christ was on the earth. Yes, I forget that even they have a purpose. Though I'm not sure they consciously know it, I see glimpses of the Lord taking care of them and them fulfilling their purpose to the glory of God. Even the beauty and ingenious design of a bird's nest I found in the hay shed at the barn. The bird had wrapped twine round and round a post winding it in and out around the cross section the nest was perched on. The outside of the nest was neatly woven hay, twine, and white hair that I can only assume was Cloud's, Laura's dog. (Laura is one of the girls who owns a horse at the Greenway) Amazing. The earth is the Lord's and everything in it. When a bird makes a nest, when a horse runs wild and free with its mane flowing behind it, when a dog chases a squirrel, when ants march in a row working together to build their hill, when a bumblebee gathers nectar from plants for honey, when the earth shakes, when the grass sways, it is all worshiping the Lord. It is all to His majesty. They are living in their call. Living is simple. We are the ones that complicate it.
Matthew 6:25-27"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?"
The nest in the shed
The baby in the nest :)
Cool!!!
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