Lately, I’ve been taking a retreat in the book of Psalms. The reason for this is that, unfortunately, I’ve been finding that my time spent in the Bible has felt similar to that of when I crack open one of the thick text-books I’m just required to read for Seminary… You can imagine how riveting that feeling is… (my apologies to all the academics out there, but we probably wouldn’t be best buddies…) And, as I result, I’m reading God’s word for knowledge, teaching material, and interesting tidbits of information, but not as it meant to be read… God breathed… So, I’ve been wandering the Psalms. It’s hard to read a book that mostly speaks to the marvels of an Almighty God as a text. In fact, I’ve been so appreciating just reading about the amazing truths of my Lord, God, and Savior as articulated from someone else’s perspective.
“Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.” – 95:1-3
“Praise the LORD, my soul. LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind. He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.” – 104:1-4
What does it mean to be clothed in majesty (wrapped in light)? He rides clouds as if a chariot and bends the elements to do his bidding! Man, our God is an awesome God! Perhaps, we could rewrite this from a modern context: “He’s dressed in the finest couture design fashioned from the morning sun, a light too brilliant to describe or comprehend. His hands so great, the earth is planted in the depth of his palms. The wind is but his breath, rushing forth his truth across creation. Nothing is beyond him, and nothing is anything without him.
Unfortunately, we can – all too often – forget to know our Lord and Savior by trading it for a cheap substitute of merely know about him.
