The Beasts of the Earth

The gorilla of the jungle beats his chest;

his strength can crush heads and dominate the rest.

The lion pride roams the savannah, roaring to show who is best, lazing around in the day.

But a fierce nocturnal predator of the night, with a roar of over 5 miles, you better stay away.

With the tiger's roar reaching only 2 miles, their bite of 1,050 psi (pounds per square inch) is greater than their roar.

A stealthily camouflaged lone hunter in the woods, able to take down prey up to 2,000 pounds or more!

The deer steps out gracefully from the forest, jumping with agility at least 12 feet high.

The elk, with his sturdier stance, raises a bugle call heard a mile away, antlers and head held high up to the sky. 

The sea turtle with its shielded body wobbly from the treacherous shore to the ocean below;

able to hold its breath underwater even longer than a whale and faster than any Olympic swimmer, although on land slow.

The whales with their tails that make waves,

their sweet harmonies puzzle scientists, spreading throughout the ocean's depths in myriad ways.

Blue whales are 10 times louder than a jet engine, which is 140 decibels, up to 188 decibels in sound intensity.

Sending unique pulses of rhythm and melody traveling 55 miles per minute up to 10,000 miles away swiftly.

Others can tune and join in the transmission, spreading the message far and wide, singing in harmony all day and night long,

encouraging the depths to sing along.

Ants, the smallest of all, able to lift up to 5,000 times their own weight!

With supercolonies of millions, unity and teamwork can be great.

Eagles and vultures soar high above, Steppe Eagle 25,755 feet to Ruppell's griffon vulture at 37,000 feet with their large wings!

The eagle's keenest distance eyesight, intent on their prey, spotted up to 15 ft further than a person's gaze at 2 miles away; their fierce cry up to several miles rings.

The nocturnal owls, with their night vision superior to any night vision goggles that only amplify existing light.

Their deep gaze is 50 to 100 times better than a person's in near total darkness, as their howls go "who" along with all that goes bump in the night. No darkness can halter their penetrating sight. Intended not for the day, but for the world of darkness, of the night.

From the deepest oceans to the skies above,

largest to the smallest, rough to as gentle as the dove.

Each animal has their own unique nature,

how they uphold themselves in all their grandeur. 

The dog barks, and the cat purrs.

The penguin waddles and slides in the icy cold, and the cheetah sprints and pounces in the hazy heat like a 0 to 60 miles per hour and faster blur.

How they live and move and have their being.

Evolution can't explain that away after beholding, hearing, or seeing.

After all why bang your chest,

to display power, dominance, might, or conquest?

Why roar to signal your prowess? Why sing to the dark ocean's depths where one might feel loneliest?

Why build colonies or empires or have a society or civilization or do anything at all?

To just have a castle made of sand that gets tossed to and fro, washed away by the waves of life?

Why build something if not to last past all the worldly strife?

If not to show that it means nothing to gain the world and lose your soul.

If not to show that even to become all these great things, it is vanity of vanities (Ecclesiastes 1:2), without the one who is really in control.

The one who truly reigns over all things, 

the one to whom all of creation sings.

That there is a king in Heaven, a higher power over all.

The living creatures, great and small.

More than that, this King wants to rule over your wayward heart.

This power is higher and greater throughout the Earth than all your problems that you go on about, so that you would come to him, not slip away and fall apart.

That you yield to his majesty and governance over all the Earth;

for only in him can you truly find your worth.

Every knee will bow and every tongue confess, (Philippians 2:10-11) 

his love will overtake the shadows, his goodness and holiness.

A call to open your eyes to him before it is too late,

to a kingdom that is eternal, not in vain, not lousy false hope or clickbait.

There is indeed a creator, and he is worth yielding to.

Only when a wheat seed falls to the Earth and dies (John 12:24), through surrender, can the true harvest and life be given to you.

He wants those darkest parts;

that's where the seed grows and where his love truly imparts.

There is a creator and he is worth praising.

No one is too far gone, everyone is worth saving!

Everyone is different and unique, and that is not wrong.

Into his arms is where the orphan can run to and belong.

Becoming children of the light,

making every wrong right, giving you back your sight.

That I should hold your feet to the fire of Hell,

and show you that without his salvation alone, all is indeed not well!

Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life.

Without your love, it is utterly meaningless; you alone end all strife.

To him alone be praise, honour, and glory forever amen to the King of our heart;

being set free from the world's dullness is only the start.

Tune my heart to sing your praise,

echoing boldly, coming broken, yielding, submitting to your higher ways!

Oh, that all may find a place in the Lamb's book of life divine;

Joining in the symphony, in harmony as one, a place in this world, both yours and mine.

Come as you are lifting up your voices singing, building together as one, and stomping loudly;

just let it be an act of worship and praise for he is worthy to be praised!

Break off the shackles of the world that kept us slaves,

now set free come as you are, banging your chest and roaring defiantly to the world and unto and before the Lord.

Get up, look up, behold and understand, time is short, and the world is in his hands!

So let's give him room in our hearts and treasure his word instead that, 

all the Earth, every tribe, nation, and tongue, (Revelation 7:9) to the Holy One, to stand back up and be amazed both in and out of bed!