When I lived in Kansas City, I would pray outside in my backyard every morning. I remember the day when I was in prayer and the all of creation came alive to me. I felt like I was in a fairy tale, for the trees came alive, the birds and their songs came alive, the grass was alive, the creek was speaking life, all in unison, all of creation. I thought at that time if I tell anyone what I am seeing, hearing and feeling they will think I am new age or crazy. I kept it to myself, but will never forget that day when everything was alive in a way that I could not explain but I saw, heard and felt.

I am reading Psalm 96 and creation is rejoicing in the idea of God coming to earth to judge His people in righteousness and the question rises in my spirit, what does creation know that people don’t? What does creation hear that people can’t? What does creation see that people are blind to? We know dogs can hear sounds people can’t; we know birds can see things people can’t; we know water retains memories; creation is powerful and so when creation speaks, I am learning to listen.

Here is what creation hears in Psalm 95 “Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.” Creation knows the judgment of God is a time to rejoice, not be afraid.

As all of this is happening in my spirit, the song Joy To The World starts going off inside of me and it echoes Psalm 95 in a way I never knew it could.

Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room

Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love.

When we see the judgment of God happening it is not a time to fear, it is a time to rejoice, for creation is not afraid of God’s judgment, creation actually welcomes it. Creation knows something we don’t about God and about us. It is long past time we listen to creation (nature) for it is telling us “The creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.” (Romans 8:20-21). We are in a season of rejoicing, let us rejoice for all of creation is being liberated from corruption, us along with creation together.