The Rabbi

And just what is a theophany? (god appears)
Did God appear to David?
Did God fight the actual battle later described (37-42)?
When David saw his soldiers vanquishing Philistines,
did he likewise "see" God coming down from the heavens to do the same?
Or was David so in tune with God that one was the result of the other?

I have never experienced a theophany, should I?
Am I just so out of touch with my savior,
that I never "see" him defending his own?
Or am I as blind as those Pharisees who claimed to see?

Even in this revelation, God holds back
The psalmist saw surrounding manifestations, but not God
He hid behind the dark

Drawing "out of many waters" suggests to many Moses from the Nile
But for Gunkel, the primodial chaos waters appear
Theophanies, sea monsters, divine victories,
how little we engage God in his world
and how much we leave him out of ours!