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even the earth’s heart beats for Him
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling out to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts;
all the earth is full of His glory.”
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
Isaiah 6:1-3 (Berean Study Bible)
Writing for Discover Magazine on April 19 2025, Anna Funk shared an article titled, Like clockwork, seismometers across multiple continents have detected a mysterious pulse since at least the early 1960s.
She begins the article: “The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don’t Agree Why.”
Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little “blip” on their detectors. But even though this pulse has been observed for decades, researchers don’t agree on what’s causing it.
Anna Funk, Discover Magazine
Put your finger on your wrist or your right hand to your left breast. Feel that beat, that rhythm that says all is well? Without your having to think about it or manage it, your heart beats on time, in rhythm, and when it doesn’t, you have a problem. God did that. He gave you a heartbeat. He provided you a fleshly home. You have to keep it clean and attend to its wellbeing, but you needn’t lie awake at night, willing your heart to beat.
Now, imagine the Earth’s heartbeat, every 26 seconds, no arrhythmia, no skipping a beat. Sometimes, it quakes. We are not always sure why and we never know when or where for sure. But there was that one time we read about. Matthew recorded it in his gospel account of Jesus’ Crucifixion:
When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit. At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, and the rocks were split. The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. After Jesus’ resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people.
When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
Matthew 27: 50–54
Some call her Mother Earth, but she is not the mother of anything. She is the servant of the Living God. All of Creation is just that.
And when I say, “the Living God,” let me be clear about whom I reference. John, another gospel narrator and reporter, shines the light of eternal glory on Jesus Christ and gives Him the credit for all Creation:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1–3
The Word, the Logos, the bodily expression, the physical presence of God is Jesus Christ.
Of course this little dust ball we call home pulsates with God’s glory. Why would it be the only holdout when the vast regions of the heavens do just that?
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
Without speech or language,
without a sound to be heard,
their voice has gone out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.Psalm 19:1–4
Science has yet to figure out what the Earth’s pulse means or why it exists. Funk concludes her article:
“We’re still waiting for the fundamental explanation of the cause of this phenomenon,” says Ritzwoller. “I think the point [of all this] is there are very interesting, fundamental phenomena in the earth that are known to exist out there and remain secret.” It may be up to future generations of students, he says, to truly unlock these great enigmas.
“We’re still waiting.”
In the era of AI, in the age of humans tampering with deity, creating their own version of “life,” we’re still waiting. There is so much we do not understand.
The Psalmist had a rather good idea on the matter of the earth’s pulse three thousand years ago, when he penned the nineteenth Psalm.
Think about this: Creation declares God’s glory. It does not defy it. It does not deny it. It declares it. It reflects it. The glory of Nature is the glory of God. All scientific pursuit is the pursuit of understanding to the degree we can what God has done and is doing.
The only instance of God’s Creation that dares deny or defy Him is humanity. He gave us the rule of his world, the husbandry of its bounty, and the freedom to choose Him.
The heavens declare His glory. The earth pulsates with His presence. What about you…and me? What about us?
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