1. God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
2. Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs that drown our enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.
3. I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
4. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
5. Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.
6. You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge.
7. Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild.
8. Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.
9. God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world (The Message)
Hasn't God given us an awesome responsibility? David was amazed at God's concern for human beings and amazed to the fact that God wanted puny man to be in charge over all his creatures. And as David looks to the skies, he see can the Glory of God in the moon and the stars (sky jewelry), he sees God's majesty and greatness. Put yourself in David's shoes that night of old testament times staring up to the sky. No science, just awe of God.
Do we see what David saw when we look up the heavens? Or because of studying science, do we have it all figured out? We know how storms are created, we know how deep the oceans are, we've learned how it all works.
Has our knowledge of science taken away the wonder of how God created it? Go out and lay on the lawn on a clear starry night, think about what God has done and what charge he has given us for his creations. Try and see what David saw.
Nancy
