I spent the morning at the edge of a valley river bank. I felt like Annie 1. I was merely enjoying the bright sun and babbling rapids when I was given a free penny. A fish fluttered in the water right in front of my face. A carp, of some sort, freely frolicked in the shallow water. I wondered about its strange dance only to find it and three others were chasing down minnows. I think they were all unaware of me. The sun, the rapids, the big fish, and the little fish all declared the glory of God. Then, no longer a bystander, I began to feel a weight of my own unique creature-ness during this correspondence at the bank. I too, as a rational observing creature, was part of this divine interaction and was dutifully able to consciously declare the glory of God. Worship.
God is glorified not only by His glory's being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart. God made the world that He might communicate, and the creature receive, His glory; and that it might [be] received both by the mind and heart. He that testifies his idea of God's glory [doesn't] glorify God so much as he that testifies also his approbation of it and his delight in it. 2
