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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Psalm 8

8:1 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! (ESV)

by Angie Osborn

As I meditated again upon this psalm, verses 3 and 4 caught my attention. When we stop to consider the vastness of God’s creation, it truly is amazing! He created every little plant, bug, animal, breeze, volcano, ocean, stream, mountain…everything! Yet, in the vastness of his mighty creation, God was mindful of man—and he still is today. He cares for us, he crowns us with glory and honor, and he provides a way to be right with him. “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” (v. 9, NIV).



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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2008, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.

Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service .