Greetings Brothers and
Sisters in Christ…
Please read Psalm 29
and focus on the concluding verse.
29:11
May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with
peace!
Psalm 29 is about God
being in charge. He is in charge in Heaven as we shall see the Psalm begins.
He is in charge in all of creation as this
Psalm continues to move.
And by the end of the
Psalm, we see that God also is in charge of our own personal lives.
Psalm 29
is witness to Theological Thunder. This psalm is a poem about the
power of God, the absolute sovereignty of God, described by the effect of a
thunderstorm.
In the language of
Bible scholars and theologists, this psalm is an “enthronement” Psalm.
These
Psalms place God on the throne. They attribute majesty to God. These Psalms
recognize God, YHWH, as the singular, above all, Supreme Being such that you
cannot think of anyone higher. An enthronement Psalm makes God bigger than the
eternity that he created.
This is a good Psalm
for Trinity Sunday. Please consider…
Verses 1 and 2
place God in Heaven.
Verses 3 through 9
bring him into the tangible stuff of this Earth, just as happened with Jesus.
Verse 10 is somewhat
of an ascension.
And Verse 11 places
him in our hearts and congregations, like the Holy Spirit.
Shalom, peace, there at
the end, is available to us. It means that God, Supreme Being and gift-giver,
is orchestrating things, storms, floods, such that somewhere, eventually, we
become the inheritors of the benefits.
Yes, it serves well as a
Trinity Sunday Psalm…but also it’s a really good Psalm for every day that the
Lord has made!
Peace, Mike, co-inheritor of the blessings and peace.
