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Psalm 8:1-9 1: To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted 2: by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 3: When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; 4: what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? 5: Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor. 6: Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet, 7: all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8: the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea. 9: O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! |
Psalm 8 Oh 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 initiated praise that drowns out enemy talk and silences atheistic babble. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have mounted in their settings, I wonder why you bother with us, why take a second look our way? You have put us in charge of your hand-crafted world and repeated to us your Genesis charge to rule over flocks and herds, beasts and birds, and whales singing in the oceans deep. God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world. Let’s
pray together. Dear God, awesome God, we are surrounded
by miracles that shout to us of your majesty, your deity,
your godness. We enjoy an ongoing display of your power
that stretches us far beyond our own understanding. Yet
in our effort to grasp it all, we often attempt to define
you in our own limited terms. We replace the remarkable
with the regular and settle for the expected rather than
trust for the unbelievable. We draw lines around what we
think you can and cannot do. We view you through the lens
of our own distorted perspective and then assume that we
have you all figured out. Forgive us, Lord. Forgive us
for underestimating your presence in every day
situations. Forgive us for blaming you for what we just
don’t understand. Expand our minds and challenge us
today to remember that you are God. You represent a
galaxy of divine creativity, yet for the one purpose of
declaring that you are indeed here among us. Not just to
be admired, but to be known through your son Jesus. Help
us to rediscover you, to rediscover the relationship for
which we were created. We all need you, Lord. Amen.Frank Thomas There is something about the song the band just played. The words of that song are awesome. I can’t explain why God cares, it’s like the song says, it’s just God. Please
bow with me in a word of prayer, I’d like us to
focus our minds, our hearts and our spirits for a brief
time around the theme today. Let’s get God in us,
through us and around us. We want God to come up from the
floor, down through the ceiling and in through the walls.
We want God. We want to be so hungry for God that he
would be pleased to show up. Bow with me please in a word
of prayer.Lord,
we do thank you for the privilege and the graces and the
marvelous opportunity to be found once again in the house
of prayer and praise. Because we have found that the
things of this world are not sufficient to meet our
needs. We have found that all the things that we
ourselves have done are but sand castles before the
storms and the gales of life. We come to feed from your
most holy word. We come to drink from an ever-living
fountain. We come to feed at a table with the bread of
life. We come because we are hungry and thirsty. We come
because we’re lonely, we come because we have
questions for which there have not been answers. We come
because we’ve tried everybody and everything else
and we stand open before your word. We stand before you
as empty pitchers before the full fountain of your truth
and your grace. We ask that you would drop us deep into
the well of your wisdom. We ask most of all that we would
not just be hearers of the word, but that we would be
doers of the things that you say to us. You can have the
glory. What we need is a blessing. In Jesus name, Amen. |
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