You Have Set Your Glory In The Heavens

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 8:1-9

What kind of questions would children ask Jesus? Will my puppy be in heaven? Were the whales in or out of the ark? How’s my grandpa doing up there with you? Almost without fail, the questions of children were are free of the doubt that heaven exists or that God acts supernaturally.

For the most part, children live life unfettered by he cares and sorrows that burden adults. Their faith lets them trust God more readily. While the adults get lost in trials and sorrows, children retain the psalmist’s view of life – an eternal perspective that sees the greatness of God.

God can be trusted, and He longs for us to trust Him the way children do.

An intimate walk with God lifts our eyes from today’s trials and into eternity’s triumphs.

Our Daily Bread – October 15, 2013