Today we consider the power of storms. God created this world in balance and set in motion the intricate machinery of our climate. Like the seas, we can sense the power held within a storm. It makes sense that we might equate the power and intensity of the storm with the power of God.
Looking to Psalm 29 we see how the Psalmist starts with the idea of God within the storm and then finally moves beyond that idea to the God that comforts us and strengthens us in the face of life's storms.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I love a good thunderstorm.
When I was in high school, my family had a pop-up camper trailer that sat in the yard by the house when we weren’t on a camping trip. I remember that most summers, we had a chance of storms coming through nearly everyday. Many times, the clouds would build with lots of lightning and thunder before it actually rained.
As the storms would build, I would go lay out on top of the camper and just look up at the clouds and watch the lightning jump around in the sky. Many times, it would look like fingers shooting out from one cloud to wrap around another. Or you would just see the flashes of the lightning buried deep inside the cloud, giving them an eerie glow.