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1 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against
your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,c
human beings that you care for them?[c]
5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]
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and crowned them[f] with glory and honour.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their[g] feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
(NIV)
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This should question us when things go wrong, and we think the world is against us. Is it really as bad as we think. Take time to consider what is being said and why. We can then begin to understand what has been said and why. The question is what we can do to make things better. If Jesus could bare our sins on the cross then what can we do to help this world be a better place.
Psalm 8: (see 2 Samuel 16) Thought to be a hymn, to sing out about how great God is. David contemplates the greatness of the universe and is amazed by how little we are in all this. He admires that God is concerned with not only ‘mere mortals’, but with other creatures living on our planet. The psalm finishes with praise to God.
We are not all like David threatened with extinction through our own son, but we do feel at times when the world seems to be crashing all around us and is too much to bear.
When this happens to you, take some time to think of people working for God. Those who have been God’s helpers, the rough times they have been through, they had names called at them, rock thrown at them, threats to kill them, but still, they carry on through these hard times and sing of God’s goodness.
When we come to the end of our trials, don’t we want to find time to sing out to God, just like David did, thankful for the things He has given us, thankful that we are alive and ready for another day.
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