Psalm 8 Prayed
Praise
to the Creator
O Lord Jesus, my Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the
earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.
Yet some try to mock you in the
name of science,
and try to convince us
that you did not create the universe.
But what may be known about you
is plain to them,
because
you have made it plain to them.
For since the creation of the world
your invisible qualities—
your
eternal power and divine nature—
have been clearly seen,
being
understood from what has been made,
so
that everyone is without excuse.
But you chose the foolish
things of the world
to
shame the wise;
You chose the weak things of
the world
to
shame the strong.
You chose the lowly things of
this world
and
the despised things—
and
the things that are not—
to nullify the things that are,
so
that no one may boast before you.
And so from the lips of
children and infants
you have ordained praise to you as Creator
because of your enemies,
to
silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
the
work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which
you have set in place,
what is humanity that you are
mindful of us,
a
mere individual that you should care for me?
The universe seems so
indescribably vast,
and
we are so unimaginably tiny,
how
can we have any significance at all?
Yet you have made us
a
little lower than the heavenly beings
and
crowned us with glory and honour.
You made us ruler over the
works of your hands;
you
put everything under our feet:
all flocks and herds,
and
the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air,
and
the fish of the sea,
all
that swim the paths of the seas.
Give us a true sense
of
what it is to be responsible for all this,
and
give us wisdom, grace and self-restraint
to
use all this for your glory, not ours.
O Lord Jesus, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the
earth!
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Psalm 8 Prayed
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