PSALM 8 FOR JANUARY 8

January 8 2015 - Psalm 8

When I got out of the shower this morning and heard Your Name, the music ripped me out of the morning fog that I was in.  My wife was listening to a song about Your different Names.  Elohim, my Creator.  Adonai, the Lord of Hosts….I come.  I ask You for Your presence.  I need to torn away from myself and this world and hear how great You are.  You are the King I need.  My Lord and my God.

1-2 How majestic, O LORD my Lord, is Your Name in all the Earth.  There is no one else like You.  You are what we need.  You have displayed Your wonders above the Earth.  Even in the clouds we see Your majesty and in the stars we see Your splendor.  2 Out of the mouths of infants Your praise echoes in the strength of their voices.  Their young cries shout Your victory over Your enemies.  You will silence Your foes and they will see Your glorious vengeance.

3 When I see and consider the vastness of Your universe, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars suspended in space that You keep there, I shrink in humility,  Who am I, in all my smallness, that You are mindful of me, and the son of an earthborn man that You care for me?  Especially when I think about how my nature has been in opposition to You from the time I was an infant.  Yet You have forgiven me.  You have restored me to being Your son.  I am made in Your image, just a little lower than You.  And You have crowned me with glory and honour.  

6 I am so privileged to have been given dominion over the wonderful works of Your Hands; to manage the part of the earth that You have given me.  You have entrusted me with so much.  Forgive me when I have let You down by not managing Your Earth well.  Help me, in Your patience give me wisdom to manage it better.

7  All these wonderful creatures that roam the earth are magnificent.  The Sheep and oxen, the mighty lion and fast cheetah, the majestic elephant, 8 the soaring eagle, the swift salmon in the sea, the giant whale who glides along the ocean floor.  9  O LORD my Lord, how majestic and excellent is Your Name in all the Earth!  

What You have done is amazing.  I am in awe of You.  I seek Your face.  Help me as I stumble towards You.  

Amen