The Climb (A Journey Through Psalms for Men)
God is Galactic
Day 8
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Psalm 8
For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David.
Lord, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your gloryin the heavens.Through the praise of children and infantsyou have established a stronghold against your enemies,to silence the foe and the avenger.When I consider your heavens,the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars,which you have set in place,what is mankind that you are mindful of them,human beings that you care for them?
You have made them a little lower than the angelsand crowned them with glory and honor.You made them rulers over the works of your hands;you put everything under their feet:all flocks and herds,and the animals of the wild,the birds in the sky,and the fish in the sea,all that swim the paths of the seas.
Lord, our Lord,how majestic is your name in all the earth!
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the Dawn Wall of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park.
It was spectacular, stunning, awe-invoking. Something about the sheer immensity of the granite face reached deep into my soul and brought forth an ocean of emotion, namely admiration, at the magnificence of the great God who set the stone in its place and who commanded it to stand there for His glory. I felt my own sense of significance dwindle in the face of such unabashed grandeur. And yet, in that smallness, I felt seen and intimately known. This God who carved the canyons and who ran the glaciers in such a way that El Capitan would one day stand guard as His sentinel for His glory and praise, this is the same God who knew my name and heard my prayers and impressed His affection and attention on my heart. He is the God of the titanic and the tiny, the stunning, and the specific. This God knows my name. He knows my story. He’s walked with me, and I with Him. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? As I stood there at the base of the Dawn Wall, the tallest granite rock in the world, I felt as if I could relate with David and his dumbfounded awe of God seen in Psalm 8. It may not be Yosemite for you, but I encourage you find someplace or something that reminds you how big God is.
