Worship and Wonder through the Lord's Creation

Worship and Wonder through the Lord's Creation

Psa 8:1-9 NLT - [1] For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. [2] You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. [3] When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers-- the moon and the stars you set in place-- [4] what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? [5] Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. [6] You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority-- [7] the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, [8] the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. [9] O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

If the power of God is in the earth, then His majesty lies in the heavens.  Ironically, looking up at the infinite dance of celestial balls on a summer night sky does not invoke doubt of a Creator somewhere out there in this nebulous abyss, but instead yields to us confirmation that everything is perfectly orchestrated by the Grand Conductor of whom all things flow.  Truly the Psalmist is right when he proclaims that the Lord's "glory is higher than the heavens."  How wondrous and powerful the night sky appears; how much more wonderful must be God if He is even above that! 

Not only is God's majesty portrayed in the heavenly portrait, but the Psalmist says that he can "look at the night sky and see the work of [the Lord's] fingers--the moon and the stars [He] set in place."  When in doubt of God's promises or His creative capacity, look up!  It all works together, so why can't He work out your circumstances?  It is easy to wonder, "what are mere mortals that [God] should think about them, human beings that [He] should care for them?"  It is such a wide universe!  How could God care about us?  It is because He has "made [us] only a little lower than God and crowned [us] with glory and honor."  Think you're insignificant?  Think nothing you can do can make a difference?  God says you matter.  The fact that you, a soul embedded within a tiny biological mechanism operating on a small, uniquely and perfectly habitable rock orbiting somewhere around one of billions of giant, nuclear balls ought to show that God cares for you.  He has a purpose for you and I!  

It is good to worship God through nature.  Sometimes we need to spend time to stop and consider all that He has done in the universe.  Doing so not only helps us appreciate His care for us and His plans for all of creation, but it reveals His nature and consequently causes us to recognize our continual need to praise Him for all He is and all He does.  Find something God has created today and thank Him for it.  You'll feel significant and will feel His presence as you worship Him!