Psalm 29
I have believed that God is who he says he is for many years. I decided as a young girl that God’s word was true, that God loved me and cared about me, and that he made a way for me to spend eternity with him. I don’t know why that decision was “easy” for me to make and some others spend their lives wrestling with what they learn, never really choosing to allow God to be their Father. I will probably never understand why it makes sense to some and not to others, but I am grateful that I started my relationship with God so many years ago. God has steadied me, protected me, held me firm in “storms”, loved me creatively and personally, taught me, comforted me, never left me, taken the weight of things too heavy for me to carry, and the list goes on. I cannot write a comprehensive account of all the times I have watched God act in my stead or love me unconditionally. His “personhood” or character is too big for me to document accurately or completely encompass here.
After many years of relationship with him, I am still awed and enlightened by experiencing his creativity, character and might in nature. Yesterday when I opened my blind and looked out the window, my yard was transformed to a white wonderland. Who else can blanket a state, town or even a yard in white frozen water? …and if that isn’t amazing enough, each of those miniscule flakes of snow was designed with originality, creativity and beauty. This is only one facet of his splendor that only portions of the earth ever see. His vastness, ability and attention to detail can make my head explode with wonder.
Nature forces us to look outside of ourselves. It is bigger than we can comprehend. We are powerless to create any one component of it, and it’s organization and harmony point to higher power than we posses. How can we possibly not seek to find the actual creator when we stop to look at the earth, our solar system or even our own bodies? We are powerless to pull oxygen out of the air in our lungs and force it into our own blood. We can’t make our hearts beat. We cannot make our fingernails grow or reproduce one hair on our own heads. God has created all of the systems that repeatedly do these tasks in each of us without one conscious thought from us. He is the one who carved the mountains, stops the ocean on the sand, brings the sun up every morning, changes the seasons, swirls the wind across the desert sand, teaches the birds to fly, feeds the amoeba, …the list is endless. David spends about eight verses in this chapter listing the forces in nature that shout out God’s voice and display his might. It is obvious from David’s words that he believes wholeheartedly that God created the earth and manages every facet of its function. David sees and hears God all throughout the earth and cries out to the heavenly beings to honor the Lord for his glory and strength.