The Sea Dragon is a creature that appears in the Bible.

In fact, Genesis 1, God places the

Tamin that is the sea dragon in the chaotic waters where he keeps him. Now in other

ancient near-eastern versions of the Sea Dragon story,

there's a storm god that battles the Sea Dragon. But Genesis 1 shows us that the

Sea Dragon's no true rival of God. He's just another creature in

God's world. However, we're going to turn our attention to two Psalms, 89 and 74,

which actually depict God confronting the Sea Dragon like a cosmic battle.

One way to think about creation is to think about God confronting the forces of disorder and nothingness and chaos represented by the

raging sea and its minions.

Creation is being connected to the slaying of the Chaos Dragon.

These poems look back to the cosmic battle at the beginning of creation. of the power to a human image of God. He's going to be such a glorious image of God that he will bring God's

rule or even over the waters. That's the image here. Strangely enough, these poems don't end in victory. We expect this anointed one,

this coming ruler to crush the dragon, but the poems end with lament, which seems like the

dragon wins. Why doesn't y'all way stop the dragon wins.

Why doesn't Yaway stop the dragon from wreaking chaos in our lives?

This poem is designed to give us language

for when we're standing in the chaotic rubble of our lives or our

communities and we don't know when or why or how long the dragon's gonna be roaming around my life or my

neighborhood. God is the dragon slayer and he will slay it one day but sometimes you

just need to sit with your grief and call out to God.

Today Tim Mackie and I talk about the dragon

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