Ascribe to the Lord Glory and Strength
Psalm 29
29:1 Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
29:2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy splendor. 29:3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over mighty waters.
29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
The praise of the Creator should start with the Creation.
And exactly so it is, how the Bible begins with the Book of Genesis, how God created everything in Heaven and on Earth. The Creation story concludes with the divine summary, that everything that God had made, is indeed very good.
However, something wrong happened, relatively very soon, as in the time-space continuum, the very running of time can be relatively slow or fast, depending on the speed of the subjects and objects.
That particular something wrong, that happened close to the beginning or at least at the very dawn of the human history, had an effect on the whole creation, and the effect snowballed dawn, because of the human sin, as it is written “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Although we are not co-creator gods of the Creator God, still science discovered that indeed, human presence can have a comprehensive effect on the universe.
This discovery belongs to Erwin Schroedinger and his theoretical cat. He says, that regarding some subatomic particles, they behave on a surprising way. Science say that, for example, the electrons inside the atoms, they spin, though the notion of spinning is a bit just a metaphor regarding the movements of the electrons.
So is the cat of Schroedinger is a metaphor. Nonetheless, not the theory but experience showed, that there is no way to tell the spinning direction of an electron
in any given time, before observation. It can be either way. Left or right.
According to Schroedinger, that if we had a metaphorical cat in a box, before opening the box, there would be no way to tell, that whether the cat in the box is dead or alive. Only at the very moment of the very observation can the universe decide about the metaphorical fate of the cat, not by sentencing the cat to life or death, but by the observing this odd reality, the observation somehow makes the the electron in question spin left or right, permanently.
From this scientific perspective, it is more than interesting, or it is rather intriguing that in the Book of Genesis we can read, that “ out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.”
Establishing order in the world, man observed the world, and by the naming, or the observing process, the characteristics of the objects and the subjects in the world had been influenced by the observing man, and by that science says, that all the possible outcomes of the creation resolved themselves into decided fate and strict determination.
In this world human disobedience to God made the whole universe a cursed place, as the Apostle Peter wrote, that “the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.”
In order to make it clear what is right and wrong, patriarchs and prophets observed the presence of God, and the revelations were made, what is right and what is wrong. The Ten Commandments are a bit quite a contemporary compilation. At the very beginning there were six laws, and with Noah they became the Noahide Laws, the Seven Laws, which apply to the whole humanity.
The simply set Noahide laws were given to humanity to improve their ways by observing it. About what is right and what is wrong, every list begins with the commandment, that one has to acknowledge the existence and the presence of God, the Creator of the Universe, thus, you shall not deny God.
It is followed that you shall not commit idolatry, and you shall not take the Lord’s name in vain, which also means the you shall not curse the Creator God, the King of the Universe.
Even, when someone would curse God, it would not injure God, as it is impossible to hurt God, but it destroys the very soul, who curses God. However, denying God, withholding our acknowledgment to God, withholding our praise of God, is almost as heavy in weight as an actual curse might be.
The Psalm says that “Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy splendor.” Let us say, that we glorify the name of the Lord 24/7, while we cannot add to God’s Glory a single ounce. God does not need glorification from us, it is our greatest and most innate need to glorify God, acknowledging his strength and splendor, just exactly how the Lord’s Prayer ends, by declaring that Yours is kingdom and the power and the glory.
Who blesses God, he will be blessed, who glorifies God, he will see the glory of God in nature, in history, in the magnificence star clusters and the mirror of the splendor of God in his or in her own heart. May we ascribe all glory and all majesty to God, and the Holy Spirit will fill our faith with certainty and assurance, AMEN.
