{"id":3342,"date":"2020-05-30T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2020-05-30T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:29:21","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-29-5-29-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional – Psalms 29 – 5-29-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 29 \u2013\n5-29-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Over the last couple of days, we have\nexperienced some strong thunderstorms with lightning and wind.  Being from Wyoming and Montana, I grew up\nwith these kind of storms on a regular basis. \nHowever, they are not so common here in Washington.  The Bible Commentary says this Psalm was\nwritten as David watched God send extreme storms over the surrounding nations\nof the Canaanites.  It was as if David\nwas on a mountain overlooking God\u2019s splendor and majesty as He rained down this\nstorm on the enemies of His people.  We\nare blessed with very few extreme storms and often I here us commenting\nthankfully that we don\u2019t live in the tornado or hurricane areas of our\ncountry.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   David starts with ascribing to the Lord all\nthe glory, honor and strength that are due the God of the universe.  In comparison to the Canaanite gods, his God\nmade them look like the handmade wood and stone idols that they really\nwere.  Oh the splendor of our God in His\nglory, holiness and strength.  In verses\n3-9, David repeats the phrase, \u201cthe voice of the Lord\u201d seven times.  Why is the voice of the Lord so\nimportant?  Maybe because the gods of the\nCanaanites could not speak or do what God can do with just His voice.  If you go back to Genesis 1, you find that\nGod spoke the whole world and universe into being.  It was by the breath of His voice that life\nwas given and everything we have around us was made.  What a difference in comparison to gods who\ncould not speak and had no creative or sustaining power.  These verses describe the devastation, fear\nand calamity that were part of the people who did not have God as their\ngod.  How great is it to know that we\nhave a God that is so powerful that He can create and make everything happen\naccording to His will.   Psalm 29:4, The\nvoice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.(ESV)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Psalms 29:10-11, 10 <\/sup>  The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the\nLord sits enthroned as king forever. 11 <\/sup>         May the Lord give strength to his people!  May the Lord bless his people with peace!(ESV)  To end the Psalm David recognizes that the\nLord is indeed on His throne as king forever and offers His strength and peace\nas a blessing to His people.  During this\ntime of storm in our lives and nation, may we never forget Who is on the\nthrone, Who will bring us His strength and blessing as we trust in Him!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, thank You for being on Your throne\nruling over everything that happens according to Your will and glory.  You allow us to make decisions according to\nour will and many times the bad things that come into our lives come from\nrejecting You in rebellion.  I truly\nascribe to You all glory, honor, majesty, splendor, and strength due Your\nname.  May I recognize the power of Your\nvoice and Your Word to me and follow you trusting in Your blessing of strength\nand peace.  In Jesus name amen!  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 29 \u2013 5-29-20    Over the last couple of days, we have experienced some strong thunderstorms with lightning and wind.  Being from Wyoming and Montana, I grew up with these kind of storms on a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}