After finishing up the numbered Johns I figured it was time to go to the Old Testament and Psalms makes the most sense. My Pastor is doing devotions daily through Psalms right now, so rather than start at the beginning I thought I would just match him so we’d be on the same page as a staff and as a church. So that’s why we’re not starting at the beginning of the book, but Psalm 8.
Read Psalm 8 here:
What stands out to me is the idea that the God who made the all the stars and galaxies cares about us. Earth is just one little marble in a giant bag of planets and stars and suns. I’m just one of millions of people on that little marble. One can despair in their thinking- but I had a friend a number of years ago tell me this- the number of known stars in the universe is equal to the amount of atoms you breathe in in a single breath. That stat flips my thoughts of myself on it’s head. The intricacies inside of you of all the systems of the nervous system, digestive system, respiratory system, circulatory, and the like come out of our chromosomes, DNA, and RNA. We’re crazily well designed by God. One thing in the solar system is off by a degree- there’s no human life, one issue in all those systems in your body- your life is over. It’s a wonder that there’s life at all!
It’s a wonder just how much God cares! Yet God calls us to care. To care for others, but not just other people, but for animals and for the earth, God cares for us and wants us to then care for the rest of his creation, especially the other things on this blue marble- those things that are close by- your neighbors and neighborhood. We are called right now to care for it in new ways. I don’t know about you but I’ve been forced into buying more toilet paper and paper towels- give those to your neighbors- when you bake too much give some of it away! Mow someone else’s lawn- give away candy to neighborhood kids. Call the kids in your life, their siblings are tired of hearing from them.
Finally he says he’s set his glory in the heavens. I’ve had a lot of moments over the last few weeks to watch sunrises and sunsets. There’s no better show. Each one is different. Each one a reminder that the day is coming or the day is done and it ends with some thing so much bigger than anything we could accomplish in a single day. It’s a moment to enjoy what God is doing. To be thankful for something so much bigger than us.
Give God glory today- praise him through prayer and/or song! Then serve your neighbor in secret so they too might see that this wasn’t done by you but by God and give him glory!
Marking It Up 