All Creation

December 17

Later in Isaiah there is a command to the heavens to shout for joy, an imperative to the earth to rejoice, and a directive to the mountains to burst into song.  What a picture!

Have you ever just sat and watched the clouds as they move across the sky? I wrote a silly song for my kids that went something like this,

“When the clouds go rolling by you wonder how they do.  They don’t have skates, they don’t have shoes, so how do they do what they do?  Does somebody pull em, does somebody push em, or do they float in the sky? Or sometimes does the wind just blow when the clouds go rolling by?”

It was a joyful tune, because floating clouds are joyful.  I imagine the earth is seen rejoicing when rain falls on a farmer’s dry fields, or when the first snow lands in a children’s playground.  And mountains are just the definition of joy, as they jut out from the ground reaching up to the Creator as if to respond and say, “You’re awesome, God!”

If these created things can rejoice, how much more can we too shout for joy because the Creator lives inside our hearts!