Daily Devotionals
Daily Devotional: Psalms 8:1-9
Ps 8:1-9
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Rom 1:20
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So, they are without excuse.
God made it all and the evidence is clear. What is even more amazing than the creation is that the God who is powerful enough and wise enough to create all that exist by just speaking it into existence, this God knows each of us and cares about us individually. I am frequently in situations with a lot of people, and it is just easy to see them as just that, a lot of people. God sees all the people who have ever lived, knows me by name and he knows you by name, and knows our situations in life, and he cares. This is love, that he loves us. God is love!
One of the reasons that so many refuse to acknowledge him as God and Jesus as Lord is because this would require accountability on their part. If there is a God who made me, cares about me, and sent his Son to die so that I can live forever, the only logical response is to love him in return and serve him. To do otherwise gives him the complete right to judge us and to punish those who refuse to acknowledge him as God and to serve Jesus as Lord. But there is no “if”. God did make us, and we must love and serve him because we are accountable to him.
O Lord God, giver of life and all that exists, thank you for loving me and caring about me. I know that you know each pain I face in life and each joy that comes in my day. Increase my faith so that I will be more grateful to you, complain less, and rejoice always. Use me to encourage others in their trials. I ask you to be with those who are hurting because of flooding or drought, or blizzards or fires. Help me and others to know how to respond in each situation to help and to honor you in doing so. I humbly pray in the name of Jesus my Lord.
Robert
