Pastor John Van Sloten

I just read these words in an old Hebrew Psalm (18), “That’s why I’m singing songs that rhyme Your name…”  It led me to ask, What does it mean when something rhymes with God?   How would words, a work of art, a beautiful scientific theory rhyme with God’s nature, character and being?   Would it be like a parable or icon – an “unlike” look at something – or act like a metaphor – a representation, symbol or emblem?   Sort of, I’m thinking, but there would be something unique of the idea of a rhyme, a resonance that not only means the same thing, but also sounds the same way.  In fact rhyme doesn’t even have to mean the same thing does it?  But this idea of sound resonance rings true.   It’s not an echo or a reflection…  it’s a lyrical, singing sound-alike.  Surely all of creation rhymes with God’s name in this way.    I’m going to get a book on rhyme and try to figure out how all that works.