The earth is praising God - Psalm 66-68

This morning I looked at the weather forecast. After months of snow, rain, cold and two days of extreme heat, the next seven days are calling for sun and the seventies. Seven days of seventies and sun!!! When you live in Western Michigan that is an extreme pleasure. Winter and spring can be tough ... certainly inconsistent. When I read the forecast this morning to my wife we rejoiced - living on a boat and ridiing a Harley makes sevenities and the sun a popular commodity. It didn't dawn me, however, until I read Pslam 66:4 this morning (no pun intended) that what the earth was doing with this great forecast was "praising God." When you and I see beauty in creation what we are really seeing is creation screaming out praise for God. The most fantastic shots of scenery are really just creation screaming praise to our God. We we express things like, "It's such a nice day," we are really just worshippiing creations worship. When we visit great places like Yellowstone or the Grand Caynon we are really just visiting the earth's worship center where it cries out in worship to the God of the universe and we notice the beauty of that worship. The sun dawned this mornign and was beautiful. My appreciating it ought to include my worship and praise to God, not simply noticing the worship of the sun for God. Praise God with the elements today. Don't simply praise the elements.