Shared Interest

Sermon “Shared Interest”

Psalm 104:1-26

Introduction to the Psalm and its cosmology: The psalmist is not thinking in terms of the universe as we know and understand it. The psalmist understanding is of the earth as the center, a land mass floating on foundations that God has set into what the Hebrews referred to as the Deep. (Think Genesis 1) God separated the waters, the deep, from the deep. These waters, the deep, were not water as we understand it, but it was the chaos out of which God would create. God separated these Waters over and waters under. This second act of creation was finished by God placing a firmament in the heavens to hold back the deep, hold back the chaos. This psalm then goes on to celebrate this God that tames the chaos and creates order in life.
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In the Psalm, we seamlessly move from praise to play to praise. Psalm 104 is a cosmic roll call of praise. The catchy song “All God’s Creatures Got a Place in the Choir” (by Bill Staines) cleverly cap