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Psalm 104:5a "You who laid the foundations of the earth..."

Day 112 – Psalm 104

“You who laid the foundations of the earth…” Psalm 104:5a

GOD’S CREATION APPRECIATED

Genesis 1 records briefly how God created the heavens and the earth. The psalmist also believed in God as Creator and he makes an attempt to describe the way God created the earth.

“You who laid the foundations of the earth,
So that it should not be moved forever,
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters stood above the mountains.
At Your rebuke they fled;
At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away.
They went up over the mountains;
They went down into the valleys,
To the place which You founded for them.
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,
That they may not return to cover the earth.”
Psalm 104: 5-9

1. Foundations of the earth

a) God has laid certain “foundations of the earth”.
b) Upon these principles the earth functions.

2. Water (personified)

a) Once it covered the earth.
b) Then the water went away as God had meant it to go.
c) At God’s command the water obeyed.
i) In the mountains.
ii) In the valleys.

3. Boundary for water

a) It will not be allowed to engulf the entire earth.
b) Everything is governed by the will and power of God.