I. Surely the man who wrote this Psalm must have thought very differently about this world, with its fields and woods, its beasts and birds, from what we think. David looked on the earth as God's earth. We look on it as man's earth, or nobody's earth. To David the earth spoke of God, who made it; by seeing what this earth is like, he saw what God, who made it, is like. We see no such thing. David knew that this earth was his lesson-book; this earth was his work-field: and yet those same thoughts which showed him how he was made for the land round him, and the land round him was made for him, showed him also that he belonged to another world a spirit-world; showed him that though his home and business were here on earth, yet that, for that very reason, his home and business were in heaven, with God, who made the earth.
II. "All things are God's garment," says the wise man outward and visible signs of His unseen and unapproachable glory; and when they are worn out, He changes them, as a garment: and they shall be changed. But He is the same. He is there all the time. All things are His work. In all things we may see Him, if our souls have eyes. The man who is no scholar in letters may read of God as he follows the plough, for the earth he ploughs is his Father's; there is God's mark and seal on it, His name, which, though it be written in the dust, yet neither man nor fiend can wipe out. It would keep us from many a sin, and stir us up to many a holy thought and deed, if we could learn to find in everything around us, however small or mean, the work of God's hand, the likeness of God's countenance, the shadow of God's glory.
C. Kingsley, Village Sermons,p. 1.
References: Psalms 104:24. Preacher's Monthly,vol. vii., p. 47; A. Jessopp, Norwich School Sermons,p. 64.Psalms 104:24; Psalms 104:28-30. C. Kingsley, Village Sermons,p. 18, and Westminster Sermons,p. 193.Psalms 104:25. Preacher's Monthly,vol. v., p. 325.Psalms 104:26. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xxi., No. 1259. Psalms 104:28. Clergyman's Magazine,vol. iii., p. 282.