J.B. Phillips wrote a book titled, Your God is Too Small. It is a good lead-in to Psalm 104, which speaks of heaven as a tent; the clouds as God's chariot; the waters standing above the mountains, birds, grass, food and wine, wild goats, roaring lions, creeping things in the sea; and Leviathan, that monster of chaos.
This psalm lets us know that God, creator of this world and the world beyond, is a God who is out of reach. Nonetheless, we pray to our God, knowing that the breath of life comes and fills all creatures great and small.
Creator God, Lord of heaven and earth, we approach you on trembling knees and open hands. Grant us a vision of your greatness and the gift to see the small things in life. Amen and Amen.
Psalm 104:24-34 (NRSV)
24 O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.
27 These all look to you to give them their food in due season;
28 when you give to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground.
31 May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works—
32 who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
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