Worship and the Holy Hurricane

Ps.29 Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
    the God of glory thunders,
    the Lord, over many waters.
4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;
    the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
    the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
    and Sirion like a young wild ox.

7 The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
    the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

9 The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth
    and strips the forests bare,
    and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”

10 The Lord sits enthroned over the flood;
    the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.
11 May the Lord give strength to his people!    May the Lord bless his people with peace.

That last word is so striking! Peace... After a powerful putting together of words describing a consuming flood, "May the LORD bless His people with  peace."  God in His powerful holiness does leave that behind. In the pictures we have seen after the hurricanes and the flooding associated with them, there is a peace: no traffic, no electrical devices, and overwhelming silence as we see what the power of wind and water can do.  Worship is like that: silently sitting back to see past all that has been laid bare, to see the Powerful One, Holy and True, above which there is no other.  If our hope is in Him, there is hope and peace after the hurricane.