Psalm 29: Ascribe to the LORD
Let all in the heavens worship God.
Ascribe to him glory and strength.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory
That’s due to his name.
Let’s raise up a shout for our God,
Ascribe to him glory and strength.
And worship him in the splendour of his holiness.
The voice of the LORD’s on the waters;
Our glorious God thunders there.
The LORD thunders over the oceans.
The voice of the LORD it is powerful, majestic.
His voice breaks the cedars in pieces.
And he makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
Sirion liken a young wild ox.
The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of light’ning;
The voice of the LORD shakes the desert, twists oak trees
He strips the whole forest bare.
Let all ……
The LORD sits enthroned over oceans;
He is forever the King.
And all in his temple cry ‘glory!!’
The LORD gives his strength to the people and blesses them
Blesses his people with peace.
Let all ….
Jeff Lowe: lead vocal, backing vocals, piano, guitar, synth - bells,
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Psalm 29 Reflection
Because science can explain a thunderstorm in terms of a shockwave in the air due to the sudden thermal expansion of the plasma in the lightning, some people have lost a sense of wonder at the extraordinary power displayed. Certainly we don’t think of thunder and lightning as being a visual reminder of a mighty, immensely powerful God. Yet the early Jews and their poets like King David were reminded of something supernatural by these natural phenomena. They could gaze at a sky full of stars and be reminded again and again of the creator of everything, the creative source of all matter, the awe-inspiring God the Father. As Psalm 19 says “The heaven’s declare the glory of God.”
Novelist John Oxenham once wrote an imaginative depiction of the boy Jesus in his book ‘The Hidden. Years of boyhood’. Jesus stands on a hill in the middle of a raging thunderstorm singing at the top of his voice, “It is the glory of God that thundereth… Eloi! Eloi! Eloi!”. Oxenham’s imaginings remind us that for those with eyes to see, God’s greatness, strength and glory speaks through everything: He speaks through the mighty waters of the oceans; he speaks through a forest of cedars that he can snap like twigs. In all these demonstrations, we his church can cry glory and know that alongside his awesome power, he blesses his people with peace.