Psalms 29
Psalms 29:1-11 (NLT)
1 A psalm of David. Honor the LORD, you heavenly beings; honor the LORD for his glory and strength.
2 Honor the LORD for the glory of his name. Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
3 The voice of the LORD echoes above the sea. The God of glory thunders. The LORD thunders over the mighty sea.
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.
5 The voice of the LORD splits the mighty cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes Lebanon’s mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of the LORD strikes with bolts of lightning.
8 The voice of the LORD makes the barren wilderness quake; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD twists mighty oaks and strips the forests bare. In his Temple everyone shouts, “Glory!”
10 The LORD rules over the floodwaters. The LORD reigns as king forever.
11 The LORD gives his people strength. The LORD blesses them with peace.
It’s in the sounding of God’s voice as it causes movements and shaking in those elements of observed significance – mountains, sea, cedars, lightning, forests, and wilderness – that there is an opportunity to acknowledge the magnitude of His greatness and become drawn to Him as the God who also blesses His people. If He so readily and actively manages those things that are so far beyond our natural ability to affect, so He can easily care for the needs and enhancements of those who respond to His demonstrations with “Glory!” Rather than the enormity of His creation passing by without recognition of its significant representation of its Creator as another of His amazing formations, there is an ongoing opportunity ever to be impressed and affected by His holiness and majesty.
The voice of the Lord, is not something we usually hear audibly, in fact I don’t believe I’ve ever heard His voice out loud. But I do hear it in my inner man, and this passage reminds me that while His voice may be a still small voice on the inside of me, it is never devoid of power!