The Weekly Perspective
by Burke Shade, Associate Pastor
Psalm 33 is such a delightful Psalm to read and be encouraged by. Not only because it encourages you to shout for joy in the Lord, or to praise and give him thanks or to make melody to him or sing to him a new song, etc., but because it’s such a simple but powerful antidote to all the evolutionary junk we are constantly inundated with in our day! The unbelievers have an agenda, and it is to shove their godless, meaningless, and immoral beliefs down our throats, and those of your children, by ignoring the Lord and his ways.
How do they do this? In terms of the weather, they always ascribe hurricanes or tornadoes or heavy rains or flooding to “mother nature” or “forces of nature” or “climate change (as though that has a brain of itself!)” or something else. Of course, those who hate God don’t want to ascribe to him creation as his handiwork or they’ll be bound to worship him!
Psalm 33 puts us aright: “By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made; and by the breath [Spirit] of his mouth all their host… For he spoke [Word], and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.” (see Psalm 29 for God’s powerful voice).
No “mother nature” or “forces of nature;” that depersonalizes and evolutionizes the glory of the Lord. Nope: Just the Lord, our Lord!
This is how you should talk, and how you teach your children to think of the world: it is God’s creation; he made it. “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible” (Hebrews 11:3).