You Have Set Your Glory
Above The Heavens
O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the
mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to
silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that
you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and
crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them dominion over the works of your
hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also
the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!
Psalm 8:1-9
When was the last time something took your breath away
because of its majesty?
This might be a wonderful sunrise, it might be a summer storm
with lightning bolts all around, it might be the first time you watched the
sunrise over the Grand Canyon in purple layers. It might be watching the sun
hit the ocean when you are six miles high in a jet. It might be the birth of
your grandson. It might even be watching how God put together all the animals
of the earth, and it might be how he crafted your own dog. It might even be
watching the constellations of the heavens each night, and knowing they were
there before you were born and they will be there after you die on this earth. God
is truly marvelous and awesome. The wonderful thing to know is that God was
there before the constellations and He will be there after the constellations.
At creation, God gave man breath. Then he took man’s
breath away with the beauty, grandeur, and eloquence of a universe of marvels
created by His own hand. Look around. Examine what God has done. Then,
breathless, proclaim His majesty.
All creation is an outstretched
finger pointing toward God.
Our Daily Bread – February 8, 2009