Credit the Lord, people! Credit the Lord with glory and strength! Credit the Lord with the glory due to Him simply because He is God. Worship the Lord in full view of how Holy He is!
How powerful is this God you are commanded to worship? His voice is the wind on the waters. His voice commands the thunder. His voice is powerful and is the fullness of grandness and splendor! His voice is so powerful that it breaks the most giant of trees into teeny tiny pieces. His VOICE does this! He commands the movements of giant countries as if they are easily skipping about. His voice divides flames of fire, and shakes the wilderness! The voice of God is the neck of great leaders - he turns their heads and directs their steps. The voice of the Lord strips bare the forests. In the temple of the Lord, we are left with no option but to cry - GLORY! The Lord is enthroned over the flood - over the entire earth. He is the permanent, eternal, everlasting King.
(My own little paraphrase of Psalm 29...)
How powerful is this God you are commanded to worship? His voice is the wind on the waters. His voice commands the thunder. His voice is powerful and is the fullness of grandness and splendor! His voice is so powerful that it breaks the most giant of trees into teeny tiny pieces. His VOICE does this! He commands the movements of giant countries as if they are easily skipping about. His voice divides flames of fire, and shakes the wilderness! The voice of God is the neck of great leaders - he turns their heads and directs their steps. The voice of the Lord strips bare the forests. In the temple of the Lord, we are left with no option but to cry - GLORY! The Lord is enthroned over the flood - over the entire earth. He is the permanent, eternal, everlasting King.
(My own little paraphrase of Psalm 29...)
Doesn't this make you feel rather small? Rather insignificant? After all, He is the King. He's the one calling the shots - in nature, in mankind, in the Heavens...He's where the buck actually does stop. Nothing occurs on His earth without His permission. No babies born, no final breaths taken. Nothing.
And yet He is our God.
This God is power-FULL, and Psalm 29:11 says that this strong God gives strength to His people. The same God who divides flames of fire with His voice, this God blesses his people with peace.
When we read Psalm 29, How can we not love our God? How can our devotion be to anyone or anything other than Him? Psalm 29 is a Psalm that you cannot leave, having really taken it in, without being changed. Psalm 29 must be a turning-point Psalm in the life of a Christian. God - the Maker of mountains whose size make you appear a speck and of trees that reach as high as the heavens; the Knitter of life, who creates life out of two tiny cells; the God who forms each cloud and each wave by hand - This God loves us! He chose us - not trees, not animals, not waves, not waters, but us to give His strength and peace. Wow!
It gets even better. God, who chose to give us strength and peace, chose Jesus as the avenue for us to receive that strength and peace. Romans 4:25 says that Jesus was "delivered over to death because of our transgressions, and was raised to life because of our justification" (emphasis mine). The all-powerful God who grants His peace is the same all-powerful Son who is our path to peace. Because we are the transgressors and the ones in need of righteousness, God came down and met us in our need, gifting us with precious Jesus.
It makes God seem even more amazing than He did when you woke up today, huh? So ascribe to the Lord glory and honor and praise!
Blessings to you -
Kim
And yet He is our God.
This God is power-FULL, and Psalm 29:11 says that this strong God gives strength to His people. The same God who divides flames of fire with His voice, this God blesses his people with peace.
When we read Psalm 29, How can we not love our God? How can our devotion be to anyone or anything other than Him? Psalm 29 is a Psalm that you cannot leave, having really taken it in, without being changed. Psalm 29 must be a turning-point Psalm in the life of a Christian. God - the Maker of mountains whose size make you appear a speck and of trees that reach as high as the heavens; the Knitter of life, who creates life out of two tiny cells; the God who forms each cloud and each wave by hand - This God loves us! He chose us - not trees, not animals, not waves, not waters, but us to give His strength and peace. Wow!
It gets even better. God, who chose to give us strength and peace, chose Jesus as the avenue for us to receive that strength and peace. Romans 4:25 says that Jesus was "delivered over to death because of our transgressions, and was raised to life because of our justification" (emphasis mine). The all-powerful God who grants His peace is the same all-powerful Son who is our path to peace. Because we are the transgressors and the ones in need of righteousness, God came down and met us in our need, gifting us with precious Jesus.
It makes God seem even more amazing than He did when you woke up today, huh? So ascribe to the Lord glory and honor and praise!
Blessings to you -
Kim
2 comments:
Way to go keeping us on track with the 29th on the 29th...
Rob
Next time you hear or sing "How Great is our God?" I would encourage yall to think about this psalm.
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