Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, you his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob. He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.”
When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings: “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”
He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food; and he sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave. They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons, till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the Lord proved him true. The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free. He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed, to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham. The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes, whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. They performed his signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness and made the land dark—for had they not rebelled against his words? He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die. Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers. He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country. He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land; he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country. He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number; they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil. Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood. He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered. Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night. They asked, and he brought them quail; he fed them well with the bread of heaven. He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert. For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham. He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy; he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for—that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord. - Psalm 105:1-45
We are the result of God's work. What happened today is the
outcome of God's long plan. Not that what happened today was in anyway amazing.
It was actually an ordinary day at work, burning off the debris from a
disagreement last night, plowing through things I needed to do at work,
catching a show in the evening together. The God who speaks into effect the big
turning points of history also is the God who speaks into effect normal days.
They show up in my journal but they don't show up in the newspaper.
Maybe the silence in history is simply because we aren't
attuned enough to the frequency of God's activity. In music theory, when a
sound descends below 20hz-20 cycles per second-it can no longer be heard, it
can only be felt. In order to be detected-even felt-at those frequencies
requires extreme quiet, extreme sensitivity or extreme volume. Might even be
mistaken for thunder, an earthquake, a bomb blast or a rock concert. Between
10-20hz, when sufficiently loud, people in studies reported feeling the sound in
the abdominal walls, having visual disturbances and feeling anxious. Between
2-10hz, sound is felt as "feelings of body sway" and involuntary eye
movements. At 1hz the sound caused artificial respiration in test subjects.[1]
In order to hear sounds below 1hz, scientists have gone to
the deepest caves on earth and placed sensors that amplify the sounds of the earth
itself. There, they are able to hear the mountains shrug, the tectonic plates shift
and the earth shudder.
Strange. How to hear God speak, when his words span,
not seconds, but years, generations or centuries? The resonant frequency is so
low-cycles per year, cycles per lifetime-that we cannot normally determine the
pitch of His words, much less the meaning. We do not have the ears, the
sensitivity, or the lifespan to see the full extent of what God is saying. Who
can? No one. It requires listening to what one generation says to the next. It
takes one generation telling the next, "This is what God is like, because
he did this." By looking back, they can sing:
Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known
among the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of
all his wonderful acts. Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who
seek the Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
He has been speaking. We couldn't hear it. What he is saying is: God loves his people and he keeps his promises. One lifetime might only seem full of ordinary days, but the voice of God is speaking through ordinary days and pointing to the future where his promises are fulfilled. We join with the saints of the century, adding a new layer of overtones to the melody he has been crafting since eternity.
https://www.audioholics.com/room-acoustics/bass-the-physical-sensation-of-sound , retrieved on 5 August 2023.
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