"With all creation I sing"

I don't regularly close my eyes during worship, but when I feel especially moved or when I feel especially detached and desperate for a Spirit of worship, I'll close my eyes to get into a posture of prayer. So tonight during worship at Freshley, I had my eyes closed when we started singing Revelation Song. When we got to the line, "With all creation I sing, 'Praise to the King of kings! You are my everything, and I will adore You,'" an image of birds chirping and the famous UGA North Campus squirrels flashed through my mind, and I thought of something. "With all creation I sing"— "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:20). All of creation is constantly testifying to who God is, revealing His power and bringing Him glory. When birds sing in the morning, most people think they are calling to each other or sounding out mating calls. But I believe they have another motive behind their singing. Dogs bark, cats meow, cows moo. All animals have their unique calls, and with those unique calls, all of creation praises the Creator. Sure, animals have mating calls, but consider this: Could it be possible that an animal's mating call is nothing but a song of worship to God that attracts the opposite gender of its species? I think animals show an even greater understanding than we do of the quote, "A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man has to seek Him to find her."

Anyway, my point is that all of creation is always in a state of worship, bringing praise to God with their mere existence. Shouldn't we be the same way? God has made us unique and set us apart from the animals, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from them. After all, the Bible makes plenty of references to animals as examples when giving advice. The reason for our existence is to bring glory to God and to bring others to desire to do the same, and that's exactly what God's creation does, but we have fled from our purpose. "Go to the ant, you sluggard," Solomon says in Proverbs 6:6; "Go to creation, you servant of God!" We need to learn what it means to worship, and according to creation, to live is to worship and to worship is to live.

"With all creation [we] sing, 'Praise to the King of kings! You are my everything, and I will adore You!"