Cowering to a new depth

It has always interested me how Scripture so often personifies the inanimate objects of this world…

“The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.  What ails you, O sea, that you flee?  O Jordan, that you turn back?  O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?”

I read this and think, interesting, the landscape is doing something that I myself would not normally be found to do on regular occasion…  and then, the answer comes: “Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water”.  Too often, I find that I am moved more by the things of the world, such as a gorgeous landscape or something intricate crafted by man, when in fact, it is these things that are given as examples of how we should be worshipping our great God.

I wonder, how often do we take lessons from the creation about how to worship the creator?

[excerpts from Psalm 114]