Psalm 98:7-8 Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy..

The love and faithfulness of God that led Him to deliver us deserves to be acknowledged. Verses 4-6 of Psalm 98 tell us to burst into jubilant song with singing and instruments, making our joy known. The next verses, 7-8, speak of the sea and the world, everything in the water and everything on the land, all creation joining in the hymn of joy. After all, God is the God of all creation. Paul spoke along these same lines in Romans:

Romans 8:19-22 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

 When man sinned, not only did they bring destruction on themselves, but they corrupted all of creation. The world is not the place God intended it to be because sin has entered the picture. This was not God’s plan. With sin, all that was in our future was punishment. That is why God stepped in and brought joy to the world by revealing His Son as our Savior. He liberates us, and those who cling to Him in faith are truly free. Creation itself anticipates the renewal, the new heaven and earth, the home of those made righteous by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ. The Psalmist encourages all creation to join us in our songs of praise, even as Jesus said they would on Palm Sunday.

Luke 19:37–40 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”