Psalm 104 Part 5

Vs29-30 Bring to mind Gen2:7, Yahweh’s ‘breath of life’ when added to dust made a living soul. When the breath/spirit is gone, ‘they expire’(NASB.)
This remarkable psalm has little or no focus on God as redeemer and saviour. Its focus is on the greatness and goodness of God as displayed in creation. Yet that was enough to make the psalmist determined to say I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. The God of all creation is worthy of our life-long praise. This again shows the importance of knowing God as creator. The rejection of God as creator has had deep and terrible effects upon the hearts and minds of the modern world. Jesus believed in a literal creation(Mrk10:6.) as did Paul (1Tim2:1-14, Rom5:12-14, 1Cor15:20-22.) Luke traced Jesus’ genealogy back to Adam(Luke3:23-38). God Himself, in Exodus 20:8-11, said He created the world in 6 literal days. The last message to the world quotes from Ex20:11 (see Rev14:6,7).

The psalmist understood that God is also worshipped by our thoughts (meditations v34). What we choose to set our mind on is a measure of what we truly value. Knowing the greatness and goodness of God as revealed in creation, the psalmist wanted his thoughts to be pleasing to God.
‘May sinners be consumed from the earth,’ seems a strange and solemn conclusion in this psalm. Yet it is the logical consequence for those who reject God as creator. It is a prayer for the restoration of the harmony of creation by the banishment of all that is wrong.
The psalmist was compelled to consider the dark consequences due to those who rejected the creator God, but he could not end this remarkable psalm on a dark note. He ends with another rousing call to His own soul to ‘bless the Lord,’ and to ‘praise the Lord.’ This is the fitting response of the creature to the Creator.

This is the first psalm which closes with Hallelujah (Praise Yahweh) and it is significant that it is joined to a prayer for the destruction of the wicked, just as it is in Rev19. So ends the Ode to Creation.