PREVIEW: as amazing as God’s work in nature was, it wasn’t even his best work. You see, you are his best work! You are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:10). The best of God’s power and majesty, glory and strength were on display when he redeemed you from your sin, made you a part of his forever family, and gave you a divine purpose for this life and the one to come. And none of that due to your own worthiness, mind you! It was all because of his great love! So whether you live in a place of beauty or not, why don’t you do what David did by falling to your knees to ascribe to the Lord glory and strength that he so richly deserves?
A Journey of Worship // Psalm 29:1-6 (TEV)
Praise the LORD, you heavenly beings; praise his glory and power. Praise the LORD’s glorious name; bow down before the Holy One when he appears. The voice of the LORD is heard on the seas; the glorious God thunders, and his voice echoes over the ocean. The voice of the LORD is heard in all its might and majesty. The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, even the cedars of Lebanon. He makes the mountains of Lebanon jump like calves and makes Mount Hermon leap like a young bull.
If you are a big fan of nature, like I am, you will love this psalm. David is extolling the indescribable majesty and awesome power of God in the ongoing witness of nature: The vastness of the deep blue oceans, the breathtaking beauty of the mountain peaks, and the chest-rattling sounds of the thunder complete with fear-inducing fierceness of an electrical storm.
Truly God was doing some of his best work when he created the cosmos.
The work that I now do requires more air travel than I ever imagined doing. Whether it is to Africa, or to some city in the Midwest or East Coast of the United States, each trip, along with navigating the unpredictability of air travel these days, the process of getting to, through, and home from airports, sleeping in hotels, all of which imposes physical and mental exhaustion on me, I never tire of flying back to the pristine beauty of the Pacific Northwest where I live. Nor does flying over the majestic Rocky Mountains. Seriously, when you see such grandeur, you wonder if God was just showing off when he created these places — the stunning beauty of Mt. Hood or Mt. St. Helens or Mt. Rainier, or the snow-capped wonder of the Front Range with its unhindered view of several 14,000 footers all the way from Pike’s Peak on the South to Long’s Peak on the north. Truly, it is hard to beat the views!
Sometimes it seems as though the pilots are flying the aircraft so close it seems as though you could reach out and touch God’s handiwork. Words can’t do justice to its overwhelming wonder. No artist’s canvas comes anywhere near God’s unequaled artistry, or in the case of St. Helens, his unequaled power. Without fail, each time I take in these scenes, I feel compelled to do what David did in Psalm 29:1,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
But as amazing as God’s work in nature was, it wasn’t even his best work. You see, you are his best work! You are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:10). The best of God’s power and majesty, glory and strength were on display when he redeemed you from your sin, made you a part of his forever family, and gave you a divine purpose for this life and the one to come. And none of that due to your own worthiness, mind you! It was all because of his great love!
So whether you live in a place of beauty or not, why don’t you do what David did by falling to your knees to ascribe to the Lord glory and strength that he so richly deserves?
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