Psalm 104 focuses on God and His creation. In fact, most commentators think the psalmist (likely David) includes references to each of the seven days of creation week in it. Charles Spurgeon called Psalm 104 the poet’s version of Genesis.
On the seventh day of creation (Genesis 2:1-3), God rested from His work. He didn’t rest because He was tired, but He sat back and enjoyed what He had made. It should parallel what we do as we remember, rest in, and enjoy God’s works on the Lord’s Day. Remember that the seventh day of creation week was the only one that had no end through the format of there was an evening and morning for each day. That means God’s rest in His work and enjoyment of all His work continued perpetually.
The parallel to this seventh day in Psalm 104 is verse 31 (and really all of 104:31-35). This would further support the fact that what God did on day seven of Creation was He delighted in all that He made.
“May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works” (Ps. 104:31).
The “may” isn’t “I hope this happens” but may this continue. Just as the glory of God in creation endures forever (first line), so also does God rejoice in it forever (second line).
Commentator Daniel Estes writes, “The psalmist desires that the Lord rejoice in what he has made, as he did when he first created it and pronounced it very good (Gen 1:31; cf. Prov 8:30–31). As an artist delights in what he has drawn, so the Lord takes joy in what his deeds have produced.”
See Proverbs 8:30-31 for another fascinating passage as Wisdom personified stood present at Creation and delighted in all that God made.
Psalm 104 ends with the psalmist saying he wants to spend the rest of his life doing what God does, delighting in God through God’s works. The psalmist delights in God by delighting in God’s handiwork that God also delights in, and the joy is made even better through the bond of a “shared joy.”
So enjoy the amazing weather and the foretaste of Fall. Get outside over the next month and open your eyes to notice how the world around you is stocked full of God’s glory. God enjoys you as you enjoy Him through the Creation He enjoys.
“I always open my eyes as wide as ever I can, because I think I can see God in all the works of his hands, and what God has taken the trouble to make I think I ought to take the trouble to look at.” Charles Spurgeon
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