Psalm 8:3-5 “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.”
I love this verse. I love the whole chapter actually! Tonight as I was taking my dog outside I
looked up and my breath was literally blown away. The stars were so, striking,
beautiful, and infinite. I sat down and was amazed and reminded once more of
how tiny I truly am in the universe; and how incredible it is that I am even
here at all. That’s when the Psalm above came to my head. It is
hard for me to grasp sometimes just how valuable we are to God. That’s right, valuable. Just like David wrote
in that Psalm, I too consider myself a “mere mortal” and nothing compared to
the wonders of God.
The thing that is so important to
remember is how we are Gods prized possession, his masterpiece. We are called
to honor and glory, and I feel that at times we get sidetracked from that
calling by the world we live in. We lose our place and value in life, we have
longings and hopes and desires, that all seem unreachable. However, nothing is
unreachable through Christ. The
beautiful thing about our heavenly father, is no matter how lowly we view ourselves,
or how far away we stray from the truth, he will still view us how he created
us: with glory and honor; and he is always willing to help guide us back to the
truth. He is smiling down on us, waiting
for us to fall back into his arms and rediscover just how precious we are to
him and rediscover all he has called us to, and all we can accomplish through
him.
