Thunder Nationals

Ava and I went to see monster trucks on Friday night. She ended up enjoying it more than I thought she would, especially since I thought we'd have to leave just after arriving. We were going up the stairs to our seats when the incredibly loud sound of one of the trucks at full throttle hit us. I was scrambling to put headphones on Ava, and the look in her eyes was just horrible. She was so afraid of the sound. I have to admit, there is something instinctively fearful about a sound so loud that you feel it as much as hear it. It reminded me that God's voice "like thunder" is a reflection of His power. In times past I've thought that the Israelites were foolish or cowardly at Mt. Sinai. I know now that I would've been right there with them.

Job 40:9
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Psalms 29:3
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalms 77:18
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

Psalms 104:7
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

John 12:29
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered ...

Revelation 14:2
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

Exodus 20:18
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.