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Psalm 8(Good News Translation)
Sunday
November 1, 2009
Called to be Free to Give God Thanks and Praise
Introduction
Psalm 8: This month's devotions will invite you to reflect on Scriptures of thanks and praise. The Psalms provide particularly rich biblical resources for thanking and praising the Lord. Today's psalm refers to God as a ruler and describes how God rules by sharing power with human beings.
Today's Scripture: Psalm 8:1a
O LORD, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world!
How is this Scripture passage speaking to me today?
Today's Reading
1O LORD, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world! Your praise reaches up to the heavens;2it is sung by children and babies. You are safe and secure from all your enemies; you stop anyone who opposes you.3When I look at the sky, which you have made, at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places—4what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them?5Yet you made them inferior only to yourself; you crowned them with glory and honor.6You appointed them rulers over everything you made; you placed them over all creation:7sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;8the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.9O LORD, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world!Reflect
God gave humans kingly "glory and honor" and power to rule. The language of verses 5-8 recalls Genesis 1:26-28, which says that humans will rule over the rest of creation because "God created human beings, making them to be like himself (Gen 1:27). Many years after Psalm 8 was written, Christians saw the full likeness of God in Jesus, and the language of 8:6 was used to describe Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:27; Ephesians 1:22; Hebrews 2:8).
Pray
O LORD, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world! When I look at the sky, which you have made, at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places, I am continually reminded of your glory. Thank you for the gifts of your creation! Amen.
Prayer Concern
Those with impaired vision
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