Kyle Olson 0:08
Happy New Year! Welcome to Elmhurst CRC's daily dose of the word of God. I'm Kyle Olson and this week's Alpha series question is: Is there more to life than this? I'll be reading from The Voice translation of Psalm 8.
Kyle Olson 0:24
O Eternal, our Lord, your majestic name is heard throughout the earth; Your magnificent glory shines far above the skies. From the mouths and souls of infants and toddlers, the most innocent, you have decreed power to stop your adversaries and quash those who seek revenge. When I gaze to the skies and meditate on your creation—on the moon, stars, and all you have made, I can’t help but wonder why you care about mortals—sons and daughters of men—specks of dust floating about the cosmos. But you placed the son of man just beneath God and honored him like royalty, crowning him with glory and honor. You ordained him to govern the works of your hands, to nurture the offspring of your divine imagination; You placed everything on earth beneath his feet: All kinds of domesticated animals, even the wild animals in the fields and forests, the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, all the multitudes of living things that travel the currents of the oceans. O Eternal, our Lord, your majestic name is heard throughout the earth.
Kyle Olson 1:47
Let's pray. Lord, thank you for your word. Thank you for your songs. Thank you for David and his ability to write what was in his heart; to give us the words to praise you, to cry out to you and all the emotions in-between. We thank you for your new year and the promise that it holds. For some of us, it's nice to look back at 2022 and have great memories of that. And for some of us, it's not, and we're glad to leave it behind. But Lord, we praise you regardless. We thank you for everything. We thank you for your grace, your mercy, and we thank you for the opportunity to to spread your majestic name all over the earth. In your name, Amen