My thoughts on Psalm 29

Psalm 29 is a song about God’s power and God’s holiness and God’s glory. It is a song that ascribes or assigns all the proper glory to God. It is a song of pure praise and worship of the most amazing, powerful, holy and righteous Lord of Lords. Too often churches today want to focus on the blessings and the prosperity of Christians. We love to praise God when healing comes, or a job is found or a house is sold, and that is right. But we also praise God because of his power. No one else can create a hurricane or a tornado or make the earth quake. We can figure out how these things happen, maybe, but no human can budge a major fault, no matter how much they try.

I was in Santa Cruz in 1989, and witnessed the earthquake first hand. Initially there was shock and surprise. Eventually, however, we need to understand that God is glorified in every earthquake, every storm and every weather phenomenon. God is glorified because God is the only being who can do these things. We love God when we get blessed, but we need to stand amazed with God’s power with every tidal wave. It is God who made the world with a word, and God who cleared the desert and who laid low the cedars of Lebanon. It is God who moves through the world doing whatever he wants, and no human, no spiritual being, no heavenly creation can stand against him. We praise God for his power and his might and the fact that he is unequaled.

Psalm 29 starts by David calling for all the heavenly beings to praise God. It is right for people to encourage others to praise God. Humans and heavenly beings are the only ones who can praise God, so it is good for us to join together so that all who have voice may praise God.

Psalm 29 ends by saying that the Lord is on the throne above the flood. The flood that is being referenced here is the flood from Genesis 6, the flood where all the evil was destroyed and Noah and all the animals were saved. People today deny the flood. I have even found preachers who start reading their Bible around Genesis 12, and ignore everything before Abram. Peter Predicted that in 2 Peter 3. Those people will be quite surprised when God himself informs them it is all true. God sent the flood to judge wickedness and next time he is sending fire to judge the correct wickedness.

So praise God because of his power, because of his judgements, because of his holiness and righteousness. Praise God who sent his Son to die for you to give you eternal life and peace everlasting.

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