Psalm 29

Of David

1 Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the Lord is upon many waters.

4 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; yea, the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

7 The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire.

8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

9 The voice of the Lord makes the hinds to calve and discovers the forests: and in his temple doth everyone speak of his glory.

10 The Lord sits upon the flood; yea, the Lord sits King forever.

11 The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. (KJV)

Reading this psalm, I guess my life is not really “All about me”.  It is really all about my relationship to God and others.  This relationship could be understood and illustrated by studying the relationship the Sun has with the Moon, and the Earth.  Of these three the sun is the only source of power; the moon and the earth only receive their energy from the Sun. Our relationship with God can be seen as the same relationship that the Moon and the Earth has with the Sun.  My relationship to the people around me should be like the relationship that the moon has to the earth.  The light of the moon is nonexistence.  It has no light of its own.  It only reflects the light of the Sun.  Its presence can sometimes be seeming dimly in the daytime when its darkness is revealed in the light of the day.  But the glory of the moon is really revealing at night when it is reflecting the light of the Sun in the darkness that surrounds the Earth at that time.  It is the position of the Moon in its relationship to the Earth and the Sun that determines the brightness of the moon.

This is also true of the believer.  It is our relationship with God and the world that determines how bright our light shines for Him.  A Christian’s walk that is worldly can be compared to the moon when it is barely visible during the day and its present is usually not noticed at all.  However, it is in the darkness that sin brings into this world that God uses those who are in the right relationship with Him to reflect his glory and give light to a dark world.  As Christ reminded us of in Matthew 5:14-16 “Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shine unto all that are in the house. Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”.  Yes, my life is really “All about Him” and He should receive all the glory.  So, the question I must ask myself daily is “Do I really live my life so that others see God working in my life, or do I try to take this glory and heap it on myself?”.

Verses three and four “The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the Lord is upon many waters.  The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.” illustrates the times in our lives that the presence of God is made known.  As we go about the daily routine in your life the weather is usually just something we consider as being too cold or too hot for our liking.  But our attention to the weather chance when there is a big storm on the horizon.  All of a sudden, we become a lot more focus on our waiting and watching for the storm to come and hoping it will not have an effect on us. 

This is also true in a lot of believers today in their walk with God.  In their daily walk on their journey through life God is only an occasional thought in their busy life.  Like the seed that falls among the thorns and choke out the growth of the seed, so does the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke out the believers’ growth in their relationship to God.   It is only after a storm comes into their life that they turn to God and seek for His help.  Verse two describes the daily path that we as believers show take in our daily lives.  We must give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name every day for all the blessings as well as the trials that comes as we travel this journey on earth.  We must also worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness and understand that this walk of worship requests of us to reflect His holiness by living a blameless lifestyle.