Are you amazed by the many things of this world? Do you wonder how many creatures, plants, or other unique objects there are in the world that you know nothing about? Are there places you long to see? Are they all natural places? Are they places God created?
There is such a wide range of species in the world. People continue to discover new species, ones that had never been seen before, or at least not documented. We continue to discover new places or formations in the oceans. Who knows how much more we don’t know.
Because of the amount of knowledge left to be discovered about the earth and species today, today’s passage is even more amazing…and revealing. Read the passage slowly. Pick out the different points made within it. You might even want to read it two or three times before continuing to read what I have to say.
Did you catch what is says on line four, which is in verse two? No one at the time the Psalms were written would have known anything about mountains in the sea. Today, we know there are large mountains fully submerged in the oceans. A recently discovered sea mountain, or seamount, off the coast of Guatemala is 5,249 feet tall and covers 5.4 square miles. By any standard, that is big.
Psalm 46:2 reveals the moving of the Holy Spirit to guide the writer. Why? If no one at the time of the writing knew about mountains under the sea, the only way the writer could write about it is if God revealed it to him. When we dig into what is written, think about what was known more than 2,500 years ago, we cannot help but be amazed and come to the conclusion that God was providing the revelation that was written down.
I pray we all spend time thinking critically and logically about God’s Word. I pray we understand that God inspired the writers. I pray each one of us connect the dots and see just how amazing God is. Think about God’s Word. Know that God inspired it. See how amazing God is.
Psalm 46:1-3
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah
Marty Pressey 