FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Crowned
With Glory
Read: Psalm 8
What is
man that You are mindful of him? —Psalm 8:4
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was launched in 1977, is on
the outer
edge of our solar system more than 10 billion miles away. In February
1990, when Voyager 1 was almost 4 billion miles from us, scientists
turned its camera
toward Earth and took some pictures that revealed our
planet as an almost
imperceptible blue dot on a vast sea of empty space.
In
the immense reaches of our universe, Earth is just a minuscule speck.
On this
seemingly insignificant pebble in the ocean of galactic objects live
more than
seven billion people.
If
this makes you feel insignificant, God has some good news. Tucked into
one of
David’s psalms is a rhetorical question that can allow you to step
out into the
night air, look up at the sky, and rejoice. Psalm 8:3-5 tells us
that we are
superstars in God’s eyes: “When I consider Your heavens, the
work of Your
fingers, . . . what is man that You are mindful of him? . . . You
have crowned
him with glory and honor.” Soak that in! God—who spoke into
existence a
universe so vast that the Hubble telescope hasn’t found the end
of it—created
you, and He cares deeply for you. He cared enough to ask Jesus
to leave heaven
to die for you.
Look
up in wonder at God’s creation and praise Him that He crowned you with
glory
through His Son Jesus.
We praise You, Father, for Your creation which reaches
beyond our imagination, for the spellbinding night
sky with its vast array of lights, and for loving each of
us enough to send Jesus to be our personal Savior.
We see the power of God’s creation;
we feel the power of His love.
Source:
Our Daily Bread 2012
