Creature Thanks for Our Creator God

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1 , 2)

Great God in heaven above, Creator of all things, Maker of heaven and earth: You are our Creator, and we will praise You. All things find their beginning and purpose in You alone, dear God, and so we give thanks.

We give You thanks this day for all things, for all things have come from Your hand. We give You thanks for making us with eyes to see sunsets, with ears to hear birdsong, with feet to feel our shoes come off. We give You thanks for the sunsets, the birds, and the shoes themselves.

We give You thanks for all things, for all that comes from Your hand is good. We give You thanks for destroying storms and for healing sunshine; we give You thanks for blistering droughts and for healing rains. We give You thanks for the crags of Scotland, for the rice fields of the Mississippi Delta, for the volcanoes of Japan.

We give You thanks for dogs and for hands to pet them, for tree bark and the cicada shells that grow on them, for bicycles and the brains that invented them. We give You thanks for earthworms and for the ants that eat them when they get lost on the driveway. We give You thanks even for mosquitoes, which fill some great purpose in Your glorious kingdom, and we give You thanks for the tongues with which to praise You for them.

Thank You, dear God, for not leaving the world “without form and void” but for filling it with all things good, true, and beautiful; thank You for shaping it in such a way as to reflect all of the wonders in Your own glory. Shape us, dear God; form us into the image of our Lord Jesus Christ. Fill us and cover us, dear heavenly Father, with Your own Holy Spirit, and produce within us goodness and purity and the delightful beauty of Your holiness. We pray in Christ’s name. Amen.