Animals Know God

 

Psalms 150:1-6

1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.

3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

 

No confusion! Animals & even plants & water…all creation, know their place & know their God. Yes, I am aware of the lower intelligence of animals compared to humans; yes I am aware that plants do not have brains.

 

But I want to point out that in the pride of life, people compare each other according to:

• I.Q.
• Brains
• Skills
• Abilities
• Appearance
• Etc.

 

This causes nothing but trouble for them.  Saints of God are not to be part of that world & life!

 

Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

 

 

 

 

Psalms 150:6 Let Everything that hath breath praise the Lord.

 

Everything means everything:

• All people
• Animals
• Birds
• Things of the sea

 

The breath of life is the guide in this verse to command ‘all to praise the Creator’.  What about vegetation? Yes, plants breathe also, but in reverse to mankind. They use carbon dioxide & produce the important oxygen we need.

 

But God does not stop there.  We think we are so smart that only smart beings would be called to praise Him – angels & humans. Yet there is a greater plan & will of God that will humble the proud when they realize truth – there is only one God & His name is Jesus.

 

Let Everything Praise Him

 

Job 12:1-10

1 And Job answered and said,

2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

 

While most people are blind in unbelief, animals know their place in life. The instincts & design of God’s will in within all living things

 

• 1Chronicles 16:29-33
• Isaiah 55:12 Nature knows & believes in God, the true God…
• Psalms 65:13
• Psalms 89:12 Mounts Tabor & Hermon…
• Psalms 104:14-16
• Psalms 145:10 All Thy works shall praise thee…
• Psalms 147:7

 

Leviticus 25:1-4 25

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

 

The land must be given a rest. God shows importance of the plan & will of God built into the land itself, to give it a break from being over used producing food for man.

 

Every part of God’s creation knows there is One God & that He alone, is Jesus. Yet, mankind & fallen angels with freewill got themselves lost with ‘wrong thinking’ by forgetting truth or by being simply too proud to behave as God intended us to behave.

 

Conclusion:

 

We must humble ourselves & surrender to the will of God just like all other things. We have a purpose in life as His greatest creation. What makes us His greatest creation?  We are souls that live forever. God wants us to live righteously & anoint us as holy to qualify us to live forever in eternal life not eternal damnation.

 

The right attitude is one of acceptance of God’s plan & our role. Live right, praise God, testify of our God, Jesus Christ.

 

Do not allow the brain & man’s intelligence to overwhelm us to be proud & think we are greater than what God made us to be. Use what God gave us to praise Him, not feed our pride.

 

Resist the world & its influence to compare with them for approval on ‘anything’:

• Appearance
• Hobbies
• Choices
• Decisions
• Faithfulness to church