Nature Gives Thanks

Reading in Ps 145 this morning, where David writes: All of your works will thank you, Lord, and your faithful followers will praise you (Ps. 145.10 NLT). This is one of those passages in which nature is described as if it were animate. How can a rock for instance thank the Lord, and yet this is what we find again and again in the Scriptures.

I find this interesting. Why would God choose to use revelation this way? I'm wondering if it is a manifestation of how closely linked he is with his creation and how all of creation points us towards him. This is not to imply that God is a part of his creation, as if we believed in pantheism. I think it points more towards the wisdom and loving care with which God created and sustains the world. He did not set it adrift and step back to allow it to run on its own. He is actively, carefully, and wisely involved in guiding and directing all of his creation. This is the message of the Scriptures.