Psalm 29 has ten verses of environmental mayhem
leading to an eleventh verse that blesses people with peace. It might not be
such a positive image in light of the large scale disasters of 2013. Typhoon Haiyan (Philippines) and Phailin (India), hurricanes Manuel and Ingrid
(Mexico), earthquakes in the Philippines, China and the Solomon Islands,
tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma City. Some estimate over 20,000 lives loved
were lost in these events alone. Ascribing glory to God through the image of
what we see as natural disasters (so called acts of God) may make poetic sense
but theologically might cause us to question how the whisper of peace can
proceed from a voice that breaks the cedars and makes the solid ground skip
like a calf. But if the peace that blesses God’s people is the recognition that
“God is bigger than the boogie man” (Veggie Tales) than the peace that stills
the storms of 2013, and every year for that matter, is that God is the eye in
the center of every storm, which I’m told is a place of calm, or in other words,
peace.
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