Glory!

Psalm 29

You really have to read this out loud. Try half shouting it some place you feel comfortable doing that (Just don’t try reading it while you’re driving!). But don’t just shout it. Try putting the emphasis on different syllables; maybe, in your mind, hear a drum or tambourine sounding on various words. This psalm just has so much energy to it. It all builds to a climax with the communal cry of “Glory!” (verse 9). It is a call to know and give honour to the power of the voice of God over the earth, with the various ways of portraying that here piling up an audio-visual impression in our minds and hearts that in some way resonates with the Word of God from all time and space continuing to call out in the universe – the same Word known to us in a personal way in Jesus.

Prayer:
Glory, glory, glory to you, Lord God whose voice calls with loving, urgent insistence. Let your voice and purposes resonate in me and spill out from me. Through Jesus. Amen.