Episode 134: When chaos thunders
Some of us are blessed to have relatively predictable and stable lives. But even then, there are days or seasons in which we feel surrounded by chaos; we’re dog-paddling in a sea of trouble, wondering if we’ll drown. Such is the tone of Psalm 93, a short psalm which uses the metaphor of the roaring of mighty waves to symbolize chaos. And yet the psalmist brackets that imagery with declarations of God’s sovereignty, as represented in the firmness of both creation and his statutes. Can we, like the psalmist, see through the chaos to the might and majesty of God?
