Elmhurst CRC

Sunday's Comin' #139 - Psalm 8:3-4

June 09, 2022 Caryn Rivadeneira Season 1 Episode 139
Elmhurst CRC
Sunday's Comin' #139 - Psalm 8:3-4
Show Notes Transcript

Caryn Rivadeneira, Director of Care and Worship Planning

Caryn Rivadeneira  00:09

Welcome to Elmhurst CRC's daily dose of the Word of God; it's Thursday, June nine and Sunday is coming. This is Caryn Rivadeneira, I serve as Director of Care and Worship Planning here, and I'll be reading Psalm 8:3-4. "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is humankind that You are mindful of them, human beings, that you care for them?"

 Caryn Rivadeneira  00:36

One evening, years and years ago, when I was in college, a fellow student stopped me mid-chat and told me to look up. I did and gasped. Above us hundreds of bats flapped and dove zipped and darted across the inky night sky. It was magnificent. It forever changed my perspective on bats. Before then, bats had always been creepy, leathery, fancy things that lurked in attics and got tangled in people's hair. But looking up and seeing them and all their mosquito-eating glory, gave me a newfound appreciation for these marvelous creatures and the God who created them. While this passage is not talking about bats, looking up to change our perspective on the things of life is always a fine idea. Just as the psalmist David is doing here, and looking into the sky, David wonders about the stars and the moon himself and his fellow humans and about the caring God who created them all. Of course, David's understanding of the galaxy was limited and faulty by our modern understanding; David likely believed that a dome covered the earth just as the ancients all around him did. But where his understanding of the galaxy might not have been as extensive as ours today, his understanding of God was spot on. And that, of course, is what matters. The Bible isn't a science textbook is an invitation to discover God and the great love of God. And that's what David offers here in these few verses. So in the prayer guide for this week, we invite this action step. Take time to look into the sky in various parts of the day, but perhaps most particularly at night. How does this ground-up perspective shape, how you view yourself, your family, your neighbors, and those all around the world? As you think about this, go to God with those thoughts and questions.