PSALM 93 - The Mighty Majesty of God
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Introduction
Introduction
For the past few years, Christian Student Fellowship at Penn State DuBois has taken a spring break missions trip to work at Big Creek Missions, an outreach center serving Clay and Leslie Counties in southeastern Kentucky. This past February flash flooding hit several communities about 40 minutes west of Big Creek, killing at least twenty-three people and leaving over 40 thousand people without power for days. The narrow passes between the hills in that region made the flooding even more severe, as it channeled the flood waters with great force through towns and farms, causing mudslides, downing trees and power lines and sending hospitals and nursing homes into emergency evacuations to escape the rising waters. Officials estimated the total damages at over $80 million dollars, and said it could take years to repair the damage and restore what was destroyed (https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2025/02/26/flooding-update-eastern-kentucky Accessed 06/11/2025)
Here in our psalm for today we find the psalmist describing the reign of God in terms of His might over raging, destructive waters:
The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh, The rivers have lifted up their voice, The rivers lift up their pounding waves. More than the voices of many waters, Than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Think of how commonly we use the same kinds of metaphors to describe the trials that we face in our lives—we are “flooded” with grief, we suffer from “waves” of anxiety, we struggle to “keep our heads above water” in the demands of our day, we are “drowning” in sorrow, and so on. We find the same thing from the psalmists as they write about their times of trouble and sorrow:
Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life. I have sunk in deep clay, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
O my God, my soul is in despair within me… Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
Your wrath lies upon me, And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves…
The writers of Scripture also used the image of the sea as an image of the unruly chaos of the world, particularly the nations surrounding God’s covenant people Israel:
Alas, the uproar of many peoples Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rumble on like the rumbling of mighty waters!
Look around and you see the chaos of a people who reject God and His Word, who have set their hearts against Him and His people. And look around at your own life and see the swirling currents of difficulty and futility and disappointment and loss and anxiety that floods your life. And look into your own heart and see the constant chaos of your battles against sin—the floods and breakers and waves of living in this broken world are enough to overwhelm even the most upright, faithful believer.
Where are those raging waters coming from in your life today? Do you find yourself like the flood victims in Kentucky, trapped by the currents of sorrow and loss, sinking into despair over the feeling that you will never escape your battles with sin, anxious over the waves of violence and rebellion that are breaking over our nation?
Psalm 93 is a life-preserver for you who are caught in the currents of the chaos of living in a world ruined by the Fall. Because the message of this psalm is that
The MAYHEM of our fallen world is no match for the MIGHT of God's MAJESTY
The MAYHEM of our fallen world is no match for the MIGHT of God's MAJESTY
How do you stand firm when the waves and breakers of your mortal life in this fallen world threaten to knock you off your feet? How do you cultivate faithful confidence and trust in God when the flood waters of calamity or sorrow or loss start roaring down the valley toward you? Psalm 93 calls you to lift up your eyes from that raging river and fix them on
I. The MAJESTIC REIGN of Yahweh (Psalm 93:1-2)
I. The MAJESTIC REIGN of Yahweh (Psalm 93:1-2)
Yahweh reigns, He is clothed with majesty; Yahweh has clothed and girded Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is established, it will not be shaken. Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.
With the first two words, we really have all that we need, don’t we? “YHWH reigns!” Over all of the mayhem of this fallen world and over all of the ups and downs of our lives, God rules over all of it. The original Hebrew phrasing of this verse can also be rendered “YHWH has assumed His kingship”—this psalm may have been sung as a celebration of the Ark of the Covenant arriving into the Temple of Solomon as a ceremonial declaration of God’s presence on Mount Zion—but this is not to say that He did not reign before the Ark arrived there.
Remember, these psalms are arranged in Book IV of the psalter to call God’s covenant people “back to basics”; back to the fundamental elements of blessedness by obedience to His Law and His Anointed King. This psalm celebrates the “majesty” of God—we really don’t have a good grasp (in our egalitarian minds) of what “majesty” is—it is God’s stateliness, His significance, his imposing presence that causes admiration and respect. Majesty imposes awe and reverence; it induces you to show respect and honor. In the presence of majesty you sense profound importance and power and are filled with an understanding of your own dignity and privilege at being in its presence. In our day and age we tend to think that worship of God is something that causes us to whoop and holler and jump around with our arms in the air—but if we really sensed the majesty of God our attitude before Him in worship would be far more substantial, far more profound than cheering on a junior varsity soccer game.
Here in the first part of verse 1, the psalmist goes on to unpack what he means by the majesty of God—God’s majesty stands forth in
His BEAUTIFUL and POTENT strength (v. 1a)
His BEAUTIFUL and POTENT strength (v. 1a)
Yahweh reigns, He is clothed with majesty; Yahweh has clothed and girded Himself with strength...
God is majestic because He has first of all clothed Himself with strength. We humans clothe ourselves out of the shame we bear because of our First Parents’ sin in the Garden, but this is not why God is said to “clothe” Himself. First of all, God is a spirit, and does not have a body like man—but also, God has no shame to hide by clothing.
When God is said to clothe Himself, it is so that He may adorn His glory. Clothing Himself with strength, then, is a way of saying His strength and power and majestic authority is part of His beauty and excellence. God is supremely worthy and excellent in His strength.
But this is not merely a strength for show—He has also girded Himself with strength. That word is used for soldiers who “gird” themselves with a weapon, or those who “gird up their loins” for action. God’s strength is not like the strength of a professional bodybuilder, who works and sculpts muscles for show rather than function—God’s strength is potent. It goes to work to accomplish His purposes; it is active and powerful on behalf of His people.
The majestic reign of YHWH is on display in His beautiful and potent strength, and His majestic reign is on display in
His SURE and UNSHAKEABLE creation (v. 1b; cp. Rom 1:20-21)
His SURE and UNSHAKEABLE creation (v. 1b; cp. Rom 1:20-21)
See this in the second part of verse 1:
Yahweh reigns, He is clothed with majesty; Yahweh has clothed and girded Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is established, it will not be shaken.
Because God’s strength is His majesty, that means that His strength is on display throughout the Creation He has established. From His governance of the tiniest subatomic particles to the movements of great galactic clusters in the farthest flung regions of the cosmos, God is the keeper and governor of all things. The physics that keep a bumblebee in the air to the way peptide bonds link amino acids to create proteins to the way a maple tree whirlybird seed pod flies off in the wind, God is the wise maker and infallible ruler of all of it.
God has created the world in a particular way, and that order simply cannot be shaken by the mayhem of fallen man. God (to take one example) created mankind male and female; no amount of protesting or legislation or changes to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual can shake that. “...since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made...” (Rom. 1:20), and no amount of protests or demonstrations or name-calling on the part of rebellious men suppressing the truth in unrighteousness can possibly erase the evidence of YHWH’s majestic reign from the world.
The psalmist declares that YHWH reigns, clothed in majesty—His majesty shows forth in His beautiful and potent strength, His sure and unshakeable creation, and Verse 2 tells us that His majesty shows forth in
His EVERLASTING and COMPLETE sovereignty (v. 2)
His EVERLASTING and COMPLETE sovereignty (v. 2)
Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.
There was never a time when God’s majestic reign did not govern all things. He is the Creator of all that exists, and so He by definition has complete sovereign control over all of it. R. C. Sproul used to have a bit of fun at his students’ expense by proving to them that God did not “exist” in the classic sense of the Latin word existere - which essentially means “standing out of” or “becoming”. You and I exist in the sense that we are both being and becoming. We are here, but we are also growing older or (hopefully!) wiser (or greyer! or heavier!) and so on. The classic sense of “existing” means to both be and become. So you can see where it would be a disaster if God “existed” in that way—if He were to change or become more or less of something. God is; He is being; the only presence in all creation that is dependent on nothing else for His being.
And so all of creation exists—it is both being and becoming—because it is dependent on God Himself for its very being. You would have no being at all if it were not for God’s being acting as the foundation for your being! So you can see here, can’t you, that God’s sovereignty over all things is grounded in the fact that all things owe their existence to Him! There is no greater power than the power over something’s existence; and as the Creator of all things, God’s sovereign authority over all things is absolutely complete. God created all that is out of nothing—He called it all into existence with His word. His reign is complete, it is eternal, and it is absolutely unbreakable and irresistible. He simply cannot be thwarted or vetoed or blocked; even the rebellion and wickedness of this fallen world does not slow down His purposes, but in fact establishes them.
The mayhem of our fallen world is no match for the might of God’s majesty. The psalmist calls us to lift up our eyes to the might of YHWH’s reign, and then in verses 3-4 contrasts His majestic reign with
II. The CHAOTIC RUIN of the Fall (Psalm 93:3-4)
II. The CHAOTIC RUIN of the Fall (Psalm 93:3-4)
The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh, The rivers have lifted up their voice, The rivers lift up their pounding waves. More than the voices of many waters, Than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Consider the way rivers and seas have played a role in the history of God’s people in the Old Testament. For instance, rivers are seen as a symbol of
SEPARATION from God’s PRESENCE (cp. Ps. 137:1)
SEPARATION from God’s PRESENCE (cp. Ps. 137:1)
in Psalm 137:1 we read the lament of the people during their captivity in Babylon—
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and also wept, When we remembered Zion.
The Euphrates River was a barrier keeping them from returning to Jerusalem. They were mourning over the fate that had torn them away from their homes by their enemies. In Isaiah 8, the prophet used the image of a river to describe how the Assyrians would sweep through Judah:
“Inasmuch as these people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah... Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the mighty and abundant waters of the River— The king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks. “Then it will sweep on into Judah; it will overflow and pass through; It will reach even to the neck; And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel.
The chaotic ruin of this fallen world has driven us to be separated from God—and not only so, but in this fallen world we
SUFFER from breaking God’s LAWS (cp. Ps 51:8)
SUFFER from breaking God’s LAWS (cp. Ps 51:8)
In verse 3 where we read “the rivers lift up their pounding waves”—the Hebrew word for “pounding” or “crushing” (dokya) is used elsewhere in the Psalms to describe being crushed by the guilt of sin—David sings in Psalm 51:8
Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have crushed rejoice.
The powerful currents of the world, the flesh and the Devil continually buffet and break against you, don’t they? Every day you have to swim against the current of a chaotic fallen world that rejects God’s Word and His will, that pulls you in every direction except toward Him. A few years ago we went on vacation to Deep Creek, Maryland and spent a day at the Adventure Sports Center International, where they have a man-made whitewater rapids course. The boys and I decided to try it out, and went through all the instructional sessions before we got into the water. They told us that if we got dumped out to hold our breath, stick our hands straight up and walk with our hands like this to move the raft off from overtop us so we didn’t get trapped. Well, that training came in handy, because sure enough we wound up having the raft flipped over on top of us. I had the presence of mind to stick my hands up and feel for the raft overhead. I did my best to remember the instructions they gave us, and it felt like an eternity before I was clear of the raft and could get above water.
How many times do you feel like your battles with sin are like trying to stay afloat in a whitewater raft? You are suddenly flipped over, caught by your temper or your lust or your greed or anxiety and are tumbled head over heels in the dark turbulence of your guilt and wounded relationships, and find yourself once again suffering the pounding waves of the consequences of your sin?
Verse 4 intensifies the picture even further—from the rivers lifting up their sound and on to their pounding waves, Verse 4 says
More than the voices of many waters, Than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
The mighty breakers of the sea—from rivers to the ocean; from the sounds of whitewater rapids to the roaring of the surf on a Pacific beach—the psalmist is painting a picture of something impetuous, violent, and overwhelming—as Job lamented in the middle of his suffering:
“Terrors overtake him like many waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
We saw earlier how the Old Testament uses the image of the sea to portray the roaring and rumbling of the nations against God and His people:
Alas, the uproar of many peoples Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rumble on like the rumbling of mighty waters!
So much of the chaotic run of the fall that we live with is the
STRIFE caused by God’s ENEMIES (cp. Psalm 2:1-3)
STRIFE caused by God’s ENEMIES (cp. Psalm 2:1-3)
The constant beatdown that this world delivers to God’s children is exhausting, isn’t it? The sea in ancient times was always seen as a wild, untamable and unpredictable chaos—it could be peaceful and beautiful one moment, and then suddenly destructive and deadly. To go out onto the sea was to take your life in your hands.
You don’t have to look far to see the wild, seemingly uncontrollable and randomly deadly character of the world we live in, do you? The world we live in today sounds very much like the psalmist’s description of the world’s peoples in Psalm 2—
Why do the nations rage And the peoples meditate on a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against Yahweh and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us tear their fetters apart And cast away their cords from us!”
The peoples rage and plot and rail against God, but all of their foaming and roaring and crashing against the shore is in vain—as Psalm 93:4 says
More than the voices of many waters, Than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Do you se that? YHWH on high is more powerful than the voices of the rebellious sea of the kings of the earth! The mayhem of our fallen world is no match for the might of God’s majesty—the psalmist shows us the majestic reign of YHWH, he demonstrates the chaotic ruin of the Fall, and in the last verse of the psalm he reminds us of
III. The FAITHFUL TESTIMONIES of Yahweh (Psalm 93:5)
III. The FAITHFUL TESTIMONIES of Yahweh (Psalm 93:5)
The last verse of the psalm shifts our attention away from the foaming, roaring chaos of this fallen world and returns it to the perfections of YHWH’s reign:
Your testimonies are very faithful; Holiness befits Your house, O Yahweh, forevermore.
The God Who reigns in majestic might over the chaos of this fallen world is the God who has spoken. He has uttered His decrees; He has declared His Law, and
His WORD is trustworthy (v. 5a; cp. Rom. 10:11)
His WORD is trustworthy (v. 5a; cp. Rom. 10:11)
The psalmist has been speaking to us about YHWH’s majestic reign, but now he turns and addresses YHWH Himself. And the first thing that the psalmist confesses about YHWH is that His Word can be trusted. The covenant that He made with His people—His testimonies—are very faithful. Remember, this is a psalm placed at this point in the psalter to remind God’s people that His reign has not failed, and that He remains faithful to His promises even through their captivity and return to Jerusalem. His Word does not and cannot fail!
Take refuge in the very faithful testimonies of YHWH toward you, Christian. In the midst of the chaotic sinfulness of a broken world’s empty promises you can stand firm on the promises of God that cannot be broken.
If you have been crushed by the betrayal of someone you trusted, you have the very sure testimony of YHWH Almighty that “Whoever believes upon Him will not be put to shame (Rom. 10:11)”.
If you have been left high and dry and abandoned by the world, you have the unbreakable promise of YHWH Himself, “I will never abandon you; I will never forsake you” (Heb. 13:5b).
If you have been drained and exhausted and by this world’s false and hollow promises of pleasure and power and happiness, you have the unfailing assurance from the lips of YHWH in human flesh, Jesus Christ Himself
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
The testimonies of YHWH are faithful in the midst of the chaotic ruin of this fallen world. His word is trustworthy, and
His DWELLING is holy (v. 5b)
His DWELLING is holy (v. 5b)
The psalmist confesses that “holiness befits YHWH’s house”. The dwelling place of God is set apart from the turmoil and noise and destruction of this fallen world; He is not affected by it; it does not touch Him. There is no sin, no corruption, no rebellion in His presence. There are no lies uttered there; there is no ugliness of shameful acts or pollution of selfish motives. To be summoned into the presence of God is to be separated from the presence of sin, to be free from its clutches and free to exult in His majesty. The psalmist invites us to lift up our eyes from the mayhem of this fallen world and look to the promise of dwelling with YHWH in perfect freedom from sin—His Word is trustworthy, His dwelling is holy and
His LIFE is eternal (v. 5c)
His LIFE is eternal (v. 5c)
Your testimonies are very faithful; Holiness befits Your house, O Yahweh, forevermore.
Literally, “for length of days”, the Hebrew idiom here conveys unlimited days, or endless days. There is no end to the faithful testimonies of YHWH, there is no end to the holiness of His dwelling. The storms and tides and floods that ravage our lives while we live here in this chaotic fallen world will not follow us to our eternal Home with Him!
You know how, from time to time, you look back at your life and realize how long you’ve been doing one thing or another? Like the point at which your kid is exactly half your age, or you realize you’ve spent more of your life married than not, or you realize that your lifespan overlaps with someone who has shaken hands with a Civil War veteran. Those kinds of things that give you a new and unexpected perspective on the time that you’ve lived.
Beloved, you do realize, don’t you, that you will do that someday in glory—the moment will come when you will look back and say, “I lived eighty-seven years in the mayhem of that broken, fallen world—I struggled every day with sin, disease, disappointment and death—and I just realized, I’ve lived here in God’s presence for eight hundred years!” Indeed, Christian, someday you will realize that you have lived in sinless glory in the presence of the majesty of YHWH longer than the old heavens and earth even existed! The mayhem of this fallen world is no match for the majestic eternal reign of YHWH.
When anxiety, fear or bitterness or unbelief threatens to wash over you because of the chaotic evil of this world, discipline your soul to take hold of God’s unshakeable throne—either Christ is seated on a throne that cannot be swept away by the currents of chaos, or He is not. Hold fast to His reign, and hold fast to the truth of the Gospel. The roaring voices of the unruly mobs inhabiting every place from our streets to our institutions to our halls of power may seem to be unstoppable and inevitable, and they may batter and bruise the lives of the faithful, but they are even now fading away—only the throne of YHWH remains!
When the waves of this fallen world’s chaos come crashing through your life, Christian—whether it is illness, economic hardship, broken families, failing strength or personal loss—remember that YHWH on high is mightier than all of these! If He truly governs everything from the movement of galaxies down to the smallest subatomic particle and everything in between, then certainly He is governing the sorrows and calamities that sweep over you! Beloved, you can trust Him with every wave of sorrow. As the old hymn says, “Be still my soul—the waves and winds still know the voice of Him Who ruled them while He dwelt below!”
When the storming rapids of the world, the flesh and the Devil threaten to dump you out of your fragile raft and pin you with its wicked current under the waves of temptation, hold fast to the sure testimonies of God’s Word. The lies of the Evil One will tell you that there is no escaping the sin that stalks you; that you will never escape, that no matter how hard you struggle you will succumb, that resistance is useless, and the only way out is to give in. In that hour, Christian, hold to the sure testimonies of YHWH in His Word!
For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
When you went down into those waters of baptism, Christian, you went down as a declaration of your death to sin. And when you came back up out of those waters you came up into a declaration that you are now living a new life that is free from sins’ power! The testimony is true—it is very trustworthy!—you are no longer a slave to sin! There is no raging river of anger, no slimy pool of lust, no crashing breaker of despondency that can ever keep the soul that has passed through the waters of baptism into Christ by faith! You will be delivered from sin, you will dwell with Him in holiness, you will live in Him for all eternity!
Your Savior was battered by every wave of chaos that ever existed—the hatred of the world, the agony of the suffering of the Cross, abandonment by His Father, the darkness of the grave—but because the testimonies of YHWH are faithful, He rose again! And now, having passed through all the waves of chaos that threaten you, He sits on a throne that cannot be shaken with an unshakeable promise to offer you grace and help when those waves sweep you away—because He was swept away by those same waves, and He understands!
Do you want to hold fast to the majestic might of your Savior in the midst of this fallen world’s mayhem? Do you want a solid place to stand while these flood waters roar around you? Then trust in the sure testimonies of YHWH! Hold fast to this psalm! It is only five verses long—only 88 words! About two and a half times as long as the Pledge of Allegiance (36 words) but about one-third the length of the Gettysburg Address (272 words!) Psalm 93 is a perfect psalm to chew on throughout your day as you navigate the churning chaos of a world that is constantly trying to tear you away from the bedrock of God’s majestic rule.
Do you want to hold fast to this vision of YHWH clothed in majesty and strength? Then hold fast to the gathered worship of His people! You need to have your eyes regularly lifted up from the daily churn of this chaos; you need to come away as you are called by His Word to ascribe to Him the glory that His sovereign rule is due--sing the hymns, read the Scriptures, join in prayer, feed at His table.
Do you want to ground yourself in the faithfulness of God in the midst of the floods of fear and anxiety that threaten you? Then listen to the faithful testimony of others who have been battered by the waves of chaos and have stood fast in Him. Not only that, but tell your story--not to wallow in your rotten circumstances or to sinfully attach your identity in your troubles--but in order to show that God has been faithful and His throne still stands.
And if you find yourself in the middle of those waves this morning; thrown under the breakers again, barely able to breathe as a sea of grief or hardship or opposition breaks over you; then take comfort from God’s Word this morning that He still reigns even when you cannot see Him. You may be rolling along under the surf right now, battered and bruised by forces of chaos in this broken world that seem like they will never lift—but God’s Word remains true. He is reigning now, and He has not forgotten you.
And if you are here this morning apart from Christ; if you have not placed your trust in Him and do not acknowledge your need for Him, if you are content and at home in this world that rages against Him, then please understand what the faithful and true testimonies of YHWH are saying to you: The world around you will tell you that you have no need of religion; it will tell you that you are already good enough to stand before God (if He even exists); that there is plenty of goodness and righteousness and worth outside of Christian religion and being “born again”. That all of this in this Book is hopelessly “behind the times” and not worth your attention.
Well, the testimony of this Book is not just “behind the times”—this Word is behind all times—this Word has come to you from before the beginning of Time. This Word has come to you by the One Who is Himself behind and before and above and beneath all “time”, and He is the One Who holds your times in His hands.
The utterly majestic, powerful and Sovereign Eternal God—the One Whose voice roars more loudly than any of the chaotic currents of this world—He has lifted up His voice to call you to His waters:
“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost. “Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight your soul in richness. “Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that your soul may live...
And again:
And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who wishes receive the water of life without cost.
This is what the mighty voice of YHWH says to you this morning—that if you will come out of the raging turmoil of your rebellion, if you will come to the waters He offers you, He will cleanse you of your sin, He will wash you of all of your guilt and shame and wickedness, He will clothe you with His own righteousness and grant you a dwelling place with Him in holiness. He has purchased all of this for you by the blood of His own Son, Who passed through evil, suffering and death itself in order to be raised up to the highest throne where He reigns over all of the chaos, all of the roaring and raging of the nations until He has placed them all under His feet.
There is no reason you have been offered this invitation except for His grace, and if you turn away there is no guarantee that you will ever be offered it again. So obey the Voice that calls you today, discover for yourself that all of His testimonies are very faithful. He will receive you, He will forgive you, He will establish you in His dwelling forever. So come—and welcome!—to Jesus Christ!
BENEDICTION
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, equip you in every good thing to do His will, by doing in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION
Where does Psalm 93 fit in the overarching structure of the Psalms? What is the theme of Book IV of the Psalms? How does the purpose of this psalm at this point in the overall book help you understand its meaning?
Where does Psalm 93 fit in the overarching structure of the Psalms? What is the theme of Book IV of the Psalms? How does the purpose of this psalm at this point in the overall book help you understand its meaning?
Why is the idea of the “majesty” of God difficult for us to understand? How does God’s majesty influence the way you approach Him in worship?
Why is the idea of the “majesty” of God difficult for us to understand? How does God’s majesty influence the way you approach Him in worship?
In what ways has the chaos of this fallen world separated us from God? How does the image of raging rivers in Verse 3 help you understand our separation from God and the consequences of breaking His righteous commands?
In what ways has the chaos of this fallen world separated us from God? How does the image of raging rivers in Verse 3 help you understand our separation from God and the consequences of breaking His righteous commands?
What are some practical steps you can take this week to strengthen your confidence in the reign of God over the chaos of this world? Pray that God may use you to encourage others who are being battered by various trials this week!
What are some practical steps you can take this week to strengthen your confidence in the reign of God over the chaos of this world? Pray that God may use you to encourage others who are being battered by various trials this week!
