Psalm 18:11
11 He made [shiyth] darkness [choshek] his secret place; [cether]
his pavilion [cukkah] round about [cabiyb] him were dark [cheshkah]
waters [mayim] and thick clouds [`ab] of the skies. [shachaq] KJV-Interlinear
11 He
made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, Darkness of waters,
thick clouds of the skies. NASB
The descriptive symbolism
of God riding the clouds of a powerful storm, reigns in hand, whip for thunder
and lightning.
The darkness and secret
place describe the thickness and depth of the storm stretching from horizon to horizon,
totally engulfing and surrounding God as He drives the storm of judgment and
finality.
The pavilion, the waters,
the thick clouds, add to the description of a powerful and driving storm, with
clouds surging and filled with water and rain, massive movement due to high
winds, driving the clouds from layer to layer, from new clouds intermixing with
other clouds, layered from the ground to the highest of elevations.
This description
continues to describe the vast and unmatchable power that cannot be imitated or
duplicated or controlled, nor even defended against, by man. Before the storm there is no hiding place, no
place to run, no escape.
Your life stands before
you and your destiny is in the decisions of your hands, but so too is Gods
final say in the matter. And from that
final evaluation, there is no way to avoid it.
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