Thursday, May 1, 2025

Reflection - Psalm 8 - Why We Have Value

Source (book): "My Soul Thirsts For God", Reflections on the Psalms from Our Daily Bread, Psalm 8, "Why We Have Value", Page 22.
By Vernon Grounds, Our Daily Bread Writer
 

Psalm 8
PHOTO: Psalm 8
O Lord, our Lord
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
above the heavens.
From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise
because of 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 man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet.
all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,
the birds in the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

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


Why We Have Value
In a commencement address to a graduating class at Miami University, columnist George Will gave some statistics that help to diminish our sense of self-importance. He pointed out that "the sun around which Earth orbits in one of perhaps 400 billion stars in this Milky Way, which is a padding galaxy next door to nothing much." He added, "There are perhaps forty billion galaxies in the still-unfolding universe. If all the stars in the universe were only the size of the head of a pin, they still would fill Miami's Orange Bowl to over-flowing more than three billion times."

There is a plus side in all that overwhelming data. The God who created and sustains our star-studded cosmos in the incomprehensible vastness loves us. And He doesn't just love the human race as an entity of multiplied billions. He loves us individually. What Paul exclaims to the true about himself is true about each of us in all our insignificance. Christ "loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).

Astronomically, we are insignificant. But we are the beloved objects of God's care. While we have no reason for pride, we are inexpressibly grateful to the Lord whose love for us personally is revealed at Calvary's cross.
- Vernon Grounds
 
 
Psalm 8
O Lord, our Lord
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
above the heavens.
From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise
because of 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 man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet.
all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,
the birds in the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

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

Why We Have Value
In a commencement address to a graduating class at Miami University, columnist George Will gave some statistics that help to diminish our sense of self-importance. He pointed out that "the sun around which Earth orbits in one of perhaps 400 billion stars in this Milky Way, which is a padding galaxy next door to nothing much." He added, "There are perhaps forty billion galaxies in the still-unfolding universe. If all the stars in the universe were only the size of the head of a pin, they still would fill Miami's Orange Bowl to over-flowing more than three billion times."
 

In a commencement address to a graduating class at Miami University, columnist George Will gave some statistics that help to diminish our sense of self-importance.
PHOTO: In a commencement address to a graduating class at Miami University, columnist George Will gave some statistics that help to diminish our sense of self-importance. He pointed out that "the sun around which Earth orbits in one of perhaps 400 billion stars in this Milky Way, which is a padding galaxy next door to nothing much." He added, "There are perhaps forty billion galaxies in the still-unfolding universe. If all the stars in the universe were only the size of the head of a pin, they still would fill Miami's Orange Bowl to over-flowing more than three billion times."
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There is a plus side in all that overwhelming data. The God who created and sustains our star-studded cosmos in the incomprehensible vastness loves us. And He doesn't just love the human race as an entity of multiplied billions. He loves us individually. What Paul exclaims to the true about himself is true about each of us in all our insignificance. Christ "loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).
 

There is a plus side in all that overwhelming data.
PHOTO: There is a plus side in all that overwhelming data. The God who created and sustains our star-studded cosmos in the incomprehensible vastness loves us. And He doesn't just love the human race as an entity of multiplied billions. He loves us individually. What Paul exclaims to the true about himself is true about each of us in all our insignificance. Christ "loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).
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Astronomically, we are insignificant. But we are the beloved objects of God's care. While we have no reason for pride, we are inexpressibly grateful to the Lord whose love for us personally is revealed at Calvary's cross.
- Vernon Grounds


Astronomically, we are insignificant. But we are the beloved objects of God's care.
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Dear Lord
Dear Lord

PHOTO: "Dear Lord, astronomically, we are insignificant. But we are the beloved objects of Your care. While we have no reason for pride, we are inexpressibly grateful having You loving each of us personally, which is revealed at Calvary's cross.

Through Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen."
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Reflection - Psalm 8 - Why We Have Value
Source (book): "My Soul Thirsts For God", Reflections on the Psalms from Our Daily Bread, Psalm 8, "Why We Have Value", Page 22.
By Vernon Grounds, Our Daily Bread Writer



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Reference

[1] From "My Soul Thirsts For God", Reflections on the Psalms from Our Daily Bread, Copyright @ 2009 by Discovery House Publishers, Psalm 8, "Why We Have Value", Page 22.
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