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hen you speak of someone "having a powerful voice"
you may be referring to the tone, quality, richness, meter, inflection,
expressed feeling and even the accent of the speaker's speech? Perhaps we can be impressed by the decibel
level a person can reach or by the precise control an individual may have over
his voice. Maybe the known experience of
a speaker lends particular weight to his or her words and thereby his voice
carries with it greater influence.
But in Psalm 29 we are not presented with the voice of a
mere man. Here David introduces to us
the voice of God! Seven times in this
ancient song David calls our attention to the voice of the Almighty. What is it about God's voice that is most
outstanding? It wasn't the auditory
aesthetics of the sound of God's voice which caused David to exult. It was the practical impact.
When God speaks, things happen. God's words are never void. God said, "Let
there be light," and, although there had never been light before,
God's voice called it into existence as if it were as old as its Maker. His voice is so powerful and efficacious that
you can hear Him intoning truth to us from everywhere. He whispers to us in the darkness; He shouts
from the thunder. He murmurs from the
babbling brook and cries loudly from voluminous waterfalls. Every rustle in the grass is a syllable in a
message He aims straight at our hearts.
And, let's not forget, His voice is loudest and most distinct when we
hear it from the pages of the Scripture.
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