In its penultimate (next-to-last) verse Psalm 77 describes the ineffable (cannot be described) Nature of God. In Verse 19 to be precise. “Thy way (O God) is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”

Bible teachers suspect that the Psalmist (Asaph) here has in mind God’s miraculous Deeds as the Jews crossed the Read Sea during their exodus from Egypt, after that first Passover!

The “sea,” a noun spelled “yam” in Hebrew, at its heart simply means “that which roars!” Pretty, picturesque, isn’t it?

“Great waters” may be describing the “walls” of water God heaped into place as the Jews walked through the sea basis in dry ground!

Exodus 14:21-22 records: “And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the WATERS were A WALL UNTO THEM on their right hand, and on their left.”

Wow!

Then God’s “footsteps” are mentioned, with “aqeb” meaning “heels, hinder parts, the final end of a troop of soldiers.” What Job once called just “parts of His Ways!”  Job 26:14 … “Lo, these are PARTS OF HIS WAYS: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Oh, what a way to worship!

Half way recounting God’s great deeds, historically or contemporarily.

The other half, pondering how great and “unknowable” this unlimited God truly is!

Deuteronomy 29:29 comes to mind: “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

Let me go now to practice what I just preached!

“O Lord my God … How great Thou art!”

— Dr. Mike Bagwell