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Good Morning!

Psalm 8 English Standard Version (ESV)
How Majestic Is Your Name
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[a] A Psalm of David.
1O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[b]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Footnotes:
a. Psalm 8:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
b. Psalm 8:5 Or than God; Septuagint than the angels

The above is one of my favorite Psalms. It tells me of a heavenly Father who CHOOSES to place His handiwork in our hands – because He loves us. We certainly do not have any right to claim authority over His creation … but He has given us dominion over it all. Now I could climb up on my environmentalist soapbox … but you don’t need that this morning. What you do need is to know that God considers you worthy to handle His creation. And knowing that fact, I am certain that you will respond responsibly.

I was thinking about an old song as I was driving into work yesterday … especially the second verse that goes like this:

We will just begin to sing loves sweet story
Oh it's a song that even the angel can not sing
I'm redeemed by the blood of my Savior
And ten thousand years or more I'll praise His name

We may be made “a little lower than the angels” but only we can sing of God’s redemptive work in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

Have a happy weekend.

Agape’


Mr. Jim