Tuesday,
March 21, 2023
O Lord, our
Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
Your glory is higher than the heavens. You have taught children and infants to
tell of your strength,
silencing your enemies and all who oppose you. When I look at the night sky and see the
work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place—what are mere
mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for
them? Yet you made them only
a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you
made, putting all things under their authority—the flocks and the herds and all
the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and
everything that swims the ocean currents. O Lord, our Lord, your majestic
name fills the earth! Psalm 8:1-9
My bride, Elizabeth and I were having a conversation the other day,
reviewing the blessings of our life. I
happened to let a personalized version of Psalm 8 leak out of my brain, which
tumbled out of my mouth. I said: I often think it just doesn’t make
sense…what’s so special about me that God has showered so many blessings on my
life?
As soon as I heard what I was saying, the floodgate of thoughts burst
through the control panels at the dam; it really isn’t that I’m that special,
but there is a God Who IS special, indescribable, loving,
and willing to lavish life and strength on those He claims as His own. It’s nothing I have done (or refrained from
doing), it just goes along with the territory of being his kid.
The song I heard many years ago by Bill Gaither’s group remains married (in
my brain) to this thought of Psalm 8:
Once I was clothed in the rags of my
sin
Wretched and poor, lost and lonely
within
But with wondrous compassion, the
King of all kings
In pity and love, took me under His
wings
Oh, yes, oh yes, I'm a child of the
King
His royal blood now flows in my veins
And I who was wretched and poor now
can sing
Praise God, praise God, I'm a child
of the King[1]
So the answer to that age-old question of the Psalmist about why God
would even think about humankind, let-alone bathe us in showers of blessing, is
simple, as well as amazing and humbling:
What king wouldn’t love and bless His child?
For You Today
There are about 2,500 devotional
posts and 400 sermons in the Rocky Road Devotions
library. To dig deeper explore
some of these: Wondering About the Big Stuff - Part 1 and Wondering About the Big Stuff - Part 2
Title Image: Pietro da Cortona, via Wikimedia Commons Images without
citation are in public domain.
Unless noted, Scripture quoted
from The New Living Translation©
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