“The Lord sat enthroned at the flood; the Lord sat
enthroned, King forever. The Lord gives
His people strength; the Lord blesses His people with peace.” (Psalm 29:10-11)
Life has
its truly wonderful and magnificent moments, but if you live long enough you
discover that it can also have its overwhelming and debilitating moments. When those moments come, it feels like a
flood.
In a flood,
nearly every aspect of daily life stops.
Work stops. Education stops. Shopping stops. Travel stops (unless you have a boat). Shelter is dubious. Heating and cooking and even sleeping may be
suspended. A flood essentially brings
daily life to a halt, and all you can do is just sit there, watch the waters
slowly recede, and focus on surviving.
When the
events of life become overwhelming like a flood, it is very much like
everything stops until some sense of normalcy returns.
David
wanted us to see the overwhelming events of life as a flood, but what he
especially wanted us to understand is that the Lord sat enthroned at the flood,
King forever over the flood. That means
that He is sovereign over the flood, which then suggests by implication that
either the Lord sent the flood, or the Lord allowed the flood to come. Either way, He is sovereign over the flood, and
whatever the reason, the Lord has a purpose. We may not see it immediately, and quite possibly
we may not see it ever; but He does have a purpose.
And here is
what David pointedly wants us to know: the
Lord gives strength to His people, and He blesses His people with peace in the midst
of the floods that come. We simply need to
seek Him when the floods come, and ask Him for His strength to endure and for His
peace to maintain an even keel, so that we can see beyond the flood.
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