How often do you take the time to think about the “wonders” of God? The universe is FULL of God’s wonders, and I love to go to Psalm 104 to consider all that God has created on the earth for His glory. Take some time to read Psalm 104 and meditate on Him who has set all things in their place for a singular purpose – to express their praise to their Creator! Focus on verse 24 – I think the central verse in this great psalm of worship.

“O Lord, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your possessions.”

Mount Everest.
The Grand Canyon.
A snow flake.
My newborn son.
A purple and red sunset painted on whispy clouds.
A spider web.
The ocean.

All God’s wonders created to glorify their Creator.

A few years ago, I read an incredible book on worship called The Pleasures of God by John Piper. It isn’t expressly a book on worship, but it is FULL of worship, because it greatly expanded my view of who God is. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it at the top of my list. In the book, Piper talks about one of his college professors, Clyde Kilby and the resolutions by which he lived his life “For Staying Alive to God’s Glory.” I have re-printed and put them up in my office.

One of the resolutions relates directly to this study of God’s wonders and I would challenge you to live by it as well. Resolution #7 says this:

“I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully allow them the mystery of what C.S. Lewis calls their ‘divine, magical, terrifying, and ecstatic’ existence.”

Here’s another of Kilby’s resolutions that relates to the God whose wonders truly do go beyond our galaxy:

“At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and about me.”

Read Psalm 8.

It sounds like the psalmist David lived by Kilby’s resolution #2! Either that, or Kilby got the idea from reading David’s words in Psalm 8: “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained… O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!”

Take some time to “consider” the wonderfully mysterious things moving above and about the earth beyond our galaxy. Then, in that same moment, worship the God of wonders who put them in motion. He indeed is worthy of our highest praise!!

p.s. Did you know that there are estimated to be over 100 billion galaxies in the universe?!?! (Pretty big galaxy… must be a pretty big God behind it all!)

Clyde Kilby’s resolutions, taken from The Pleasures of God by John Piper, p.95,97-98.