Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Who set the seas in their place?


Okay, I'm reading a Psalm the other day, and a whole mind movie of God creating oceans, mountains, and putting them in their place, orbits, etc. is being played.

It was Psalm 104. Verses 5-10 says,
"You who laid the foundations of the earth, so that it should not be moved forever,
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters stood above the mountains,
At Your rebuke they fled;
At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away. They went up over the mountains;
They went down into the valleys,
To the place which You founded for them.
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,
That they may not return to cover the earth.
He sends the springs into the valleys;
They flow among the hills."

And it dawned on me. NO WONDER Jesus's response to the fear in his disciples when the "great" storm hit their little boat was to marvel at their little faith! He knew that they knew this Psalm. They'd all been raised on the Old Testament. The Genesis- Who put the stars in their place, who hovered over the waters, separating land from water? Who made the orbits? Gravity, the Moon's cycles, the tides and the seasons?
They also knew about the Red Sea being parted, and later, the Jordan river.
And they were taught Psalms 104.
God rebuked the waters that were covering mountains, and they fled.
Why on earth, Jesus must've thought, would they be worried about a storm?
He rebukes it and it flees. It's that simple. He made water, He gave it it's boundaries, and He therefore had dominion over it.
No Wonder!
And I was reminded of the time several years ago when the TV Christian talk-show host,Pat Robertson, actually rebuked a hurricane off the east coast and got a lot of flack from the media for doing so. But later, it turned out, the storm actually didn't hit, it died down, or changed directions before hand.
Why did we doubt? Why do we worry? Is it because we really don't fully understand who this Jesus is yet, ourselves.
And He said we would do greater works than this, because He goes to the Father and the Holy Spirit is with us. So. Who is with us? Whose Spirit is it? Who hovered over the water as the worlds were made? (Gen. 1:2)

1 comment:

sharon said...

Amen, mom.

I'm glad that you blog- your insights are wise and faithful.

LOVE YOU!