How many times have we heard quoted or read Psalm 139? It is the favorite psalm of so many people. I remember when I first got saved, this psalm made me feel so loved, so seen, so special. Maybe the same is true for you. I say this because, this morning as I was praying psalm 139 the Holy Spirit dropped the idea in my spirt that this psalm is not just about people it is about the earth. What? I went back and read it again and it made sense for the earth as well as for us. Before I show you what the Holy Spirit showed me remember, Romans 8 says, all of creation is awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God, so creation and us the created ones are in partnership in a way I am not sure we fully understand, but we are learning.

Psalm 139:10-11 says, “If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.” Now listen to Genesis 1:2-3 “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” Then add Isaiah 60:2 “For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.”

The Hebrew people never separated themselves from the land, they understood the partnership between the land and them as people. One affected the other. Friends, we are the light of the world, the salt of the earth. The earth is crying out for our manifestation, for in it is the earth’s liberation. If we preach darkness, we are not in agreement with what the earth is crying out for. If we keep speaking death the earth will not produce life. The curse has been broken, the earth is no longer (Genesis 3) working against us, it wants to work with us and for us, but we must recognize it is crying out for light and it wants us to cry out for the same thing. Light, life, justice, peace, let us join our voice with all of creation and decree light come!