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O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honour. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8)
"It's all about me!" has no place in the Christian mind or heart. God created us for worship and service, and to think that we were created to be pleased and pampered just does no one any good. David, who spent a lot of time outdoors soon realized as he surveyed creation, just how marvelous and awesome is God. And how awesome it was that God even thought of us. He writes, "What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor." And, David realized that we have a responsibility with who we are in God's thinking; that of having dominion over the works of God's hands requires a lot of work, and caring, and love.
PRAYER: O Lord, our God and Sovereign, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! And made more so, when we serve You and care for each other. In Christ Jesus we pray, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
Prayer Requests: Dear friends, please conintue to hold Leroy Keese of Brady, TX., and my father, Eradio M. Valverde, in your prayers. Prayers for several here in Portland who have taken ill, including a bishop from Africa diagnosed with malaria; a delegate from Houston with shingles, and several who have fallen and injured themselves while here. And pray for the General Conference, two full days of work remain; we pray that all delegates be able to discern God's will for the people called United Methodists. Blessings and thanks!
