Glory in the Father
“Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name, worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.”-Psalm 29:1-2
In Psalm 29, David’s hymn of praise to the Lord is a call for all of creation, including the angels (heavenly beings), to place glory where it belongs…with the Lord. As a demonstration of the Lord’s awesome power, David provides seven descriptions of God’s voice. He sings that the Lord’s voice is over many waters, powerful, full of majesty, breaking the cedars of Lebanon, flashing forth flames of fire, shaking the wilderness, and causing the deer to give birth while stripping the forest bare. As a final, definitive example of God’s power in the psalm, David provides a breathtaking image of the Lord:
“The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.”-Psalm 29:10
Imagine, all of earth engulfed in the flood, and our heavenly Father sat, just as he sits now…enthroned, controlling every wave, rain drop, current, cloud, and the outcome of all of creation. I ask, brothers and sisters in Christ, when was the last time you slowed down and broke away from the insane daily pace, to simply find yourself completely enamored with the awesome power of our Lord? Oh, how sweet is it to marvel at our heavenly Father’s voice and rest in the fact that He is to receive all glory. But I ask, are we listening? Just as Pastor Tony has highlighted most recently in his teachings through Colossians, the genesis of idol worship begins the very moment that we seek to grab hold of even the slightest amount of glory. For just as David exclaims in Psalm 29, all glory and strength belongs to the Lord alone. Mankind does…not…possess…strength. All strength comes from the Lord; no other sources for strength exist.
“May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!”-Psalm 29:11
David finishes Psalm 29 with an intimate picture of the Lord’s love for mankind, and acknowledges God’s power makes distinctions between the faithful and the unfaithful. But we cannot take David to mean that we have the strength or ability to accomplish this on our own accord, by our own acts. As God’s children, saved by the grace of Christ’s death on the cross, we are called to be faithful, and in our faith God intervenes on our behalf to lovingly provide strength, peace, and the gift of eternal life with Him! Pray with me, brothers and sisters in Christ, that we might find ourselves bound in God’s grace, faithfully seeking Christ and properly placing glory where glory belongs!
–your brother in Christ, zack fugate
In Psalm 29, David’s hymn of praise to the Lord is a call for all of creation, including the angels (heavenly beings), to place glory where it belongs…with the Lord. As a demonstration of the Lord’s awesome power, David provides seven descriptions of God’s voice. He sings that the Lord’s voice is over many waters, powerful, full of majesty, breaking the cedars of Lebanon, flashing forth flames of fire, shaking the wilderness, and causing the deer to give birth while stripping the forest bare. As a final, definitive example of God’s power in the psalm, David provides a breathtaking image of the Lord:
“The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.”-Psalm 29:10
Imagine, all of earth engulfed in the flood, and our heavenly Father sat, just as he sits now…enthroned, controlling every wave, rain drop, current, cloud, and the outcome of all of creation. I ask, brothers and sisters in Christ, when was the last time you slowed down and broke away from the insane daily pace, to simply find yourself completely enamored with the awesome power of our Lord? Oh, how sweet is it to marvel at our heavenly Father’s voice and rest in the fact that He is to receive all glory. But I ask, are we listening? Just as Pastor Tony has highlighted most recently in his teachings through Colossians, the genesis of idol worship begins the very moment that we seek to grab hold of even the slightest amount of glory. For just as David exclaims in Psalm 29, all glory and strength belongs to the Lord alone. Mankind does…not…possess…strength. All strength comes from the Lord; no other sources for strength exist.
“May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!”-Psalm 29:11
David finishes Psalm 29 with an intimate picture of the Lord’s love for mankind, and acknowledges God’s power makes distinctions between the faithful and the unfaithful. But we cannot take David to mean that we have the strength or ability to accomplish this on our own accord, by our own acts. As God’s children, saved by the grace of Christ’s death on the cross, we are called to be faithful, and in our faith God intervenes on our behalf to lovingly provide strength, peace, and the gift of eternal life with Him! Pray with me, brothers and sisters in Christ, that we might find ourselves bound in God’s grace, faithfully seeking Christ and properly placing glory where glory belongs!
–your brother in Christ, zack fugate
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