Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!
You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.
Psalm 8:1Observation: As the psalmist praises God, he creates one specific context - the earth and heavens are amazing, filled with beauty, life, wonder, and amazing things ... and yet God has placed mankind in charge of it all. For this, God is to be worshiped and praised. His name is to be declared as wonderful from our own mouths.
Application: This is the responsibility of myself and all mankind - to worship God as our lord. It is only in the context of understand God as both creator and benefactor that this truly occurs. God created all things, and yet also created every person - myself included - with the authority to control all things.
In some cases, we are in absolutely control of God's created world. We raise plants and animals for food, reshape landscapes, take from forests (sometimes with devastating results). In other cases, we are in control through unintended results, such as the acceleration of climate change, ocean pollution, and alteration of certain ecosystems on the planet.
God has placed each of us - as individuals and a collective - in charge of his nature. The point isn't for us to debate actions or fret but ... to honor God out of that gift. We are to celebrate his magnificent name throughout and in the midst of that creation. In so honoring God, we will likely be stewards of his creation, obey his commands, bless others, and please him.
Prayer: Lord, Abba, Yahweh, Jesus, Jehovah Jireh, Elohim, Adonai, Jehovah Sabaoth, El Shaddai. Your name is magnificent, and I praise you here today. May I see you and be reminded of your great name in everything I see today, be it a rainstorm, a forest, a field, a mountain, or the faces of those around me. I praise you, my Lord and God, for you are great and wonderful and loving and powerful and just. May your name be praised forever and ever, and forever be on my lips. Amen.
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