Discovering (or remembering) that you were purposefully designed by a loving, sovereign Creator can change your day / your life.
Heavenly Creator,
Your name is majestic, global and glorious!
Your sovereignty stretches over the universe.
Even little ones display your strong design — and this shames and infuriates your vengeful enemies.
Looking into a starry, moonlit sky, or gazing at the clouds, I see your creative, careful and compelling handiwork.
With all of the micro-details of the universe, how is it that you value me?
Why do you care for stumbling, bumbling, stubborn creatures like us?
Yet, you’ve propped us up as precious image-bearers.
You’ve spoken worth over us, gifted us with redemption and tasked us with governing your created world.
This brings me to my knees.
It makes me say again and again:
O Lord, My Lord
How majestic, global and glorious is your matchless name!
(based on Psalm 8 — a meditation, a prayer, an announcement back to God, from me.)
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The Real Psalm 8 — By David
From the Holy Bible (ESV version)
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!
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