Awesome God

In the Bible, the Book of Psalms, 104, begins:

Praise the LORD, I tell myself;
O LORD my God, how great you are!
You are robed with honor and with majesty;

you are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.
You make the clouds your chariots;
you ride upon the wings of the wind.

The winds are your messengers;
flames of fire are your servants.

You placed the world on its foundation
so it would never be moved.

The poetry of it is fabulous, but the message is even more significant. If there is a God who made this world, then our starting point has to be his majesty. In this Psalm, he's pictured as the master of the ancient basic elements - earth, wind, fire and water. He made them and they are under his total command.

A starting point like this changes everything. We are used to blaming him for all the stuff in our lives that goes wrong or accusing him of having abandoned us. We search for him and don't find him in the places where we are looking. Ultimately, we want to pull him down into our orbit so we can tell him a few things and maybe learn a few things from him. We want to domesticate him so that he can fit himself to our purposes and fulfill our dreams.

But he won't be tamed. He's Master of the Universe. He rides on the wings of the wind.