Psalm 8:3Psalm 8:3
English: World English Bible - WEB
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

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I am taking time to read and meditate on “My 40 Favourite Psalms”, a reading plan I posted on my website.  Something really struck me about Psalm 8.  It says in verse 3, “When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place…” 

Do you see what I see?

The Psalmist says that God created our universe with his "fingers”.  It’s as though he sat down at the dining room table and began working on a science project – creating a universe. 

I can imagine God creating the Milky Way (our galaxy) – that’s only one little corner of His project.  He then gets his needle-point utensils out, included a magnifying glass and with his fingers sets our planets in its perfect place, every star – names every one of them – and then earth. With a single breath, He sets them to motion with perfect synchronism.

And then God made man.  Think of our size in light of creation – the science project on his dining room table – and that he actually values the praise of nursing babies.  And what does God desire? More than anything to have a personal living relationship with us.

My Point:  God is amazing, incomparable, all-powerful and worthy of all our praise and devotion.

My Question: How can man suggest that he doesn’t have time for Him?  How can man justify finding pleasure in something that man has created?

How absurd for a believer of God to say that he has no time to read God’s Word. His personal Word to man. It’s like lifting his puny, microscopic hand and trying to give God a slap in the face.  Right?

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Psalm 98

Some of you may know the name of Isaac Watts.  To give you a clue, every one of us have sung his songs.

Isaac was a literary genius.  At age 5 he learned Latin.  Having a firm grasp on Latin he began studying Greek at age 9. At age 11 he mastered French and then at age 13 he became well acquainted with Hebrew.  In his early life he became an accomplished student of Theology & Philosophy. 

One accomplishment of Watts’ was to write a hymn for each of the 150 Psalms. Well, except 12 of them.

As a teen he was very dissatisfied with the deplorable hymn singing that was characteristic of his time. Imagine singing this hymn:

(You can almost visualize a choir of pirates grunting out the rhythm)

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep
Your Master’s praises spout;
Up from the sands ye docclings peep,
And wag your tails about.

(more…)

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