When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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… sun, moon, and stars into place. This question, what is man, was asked in Psalm 8. When the psalmist said, when I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have created or ordained, what is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you visit him. When I look up at the sky and I consider the universe that I am in, why do you care about us? I don't know if you've ever done that. Have you ever looked up at the night sky and go, this is a pretty big neighborhood I'm living in. Okay, the earth, I'm on a dirt clod called the earth that's 8,000 miles in diameter. that's rotating on its axis at about 1,000 miles per hour, but careening through space at 45,000 miles per hour as it goes around the sun. 8,000 miles in diameter. The sun, much larger, but the sun, as hot as it was today, as hot as it has been, is 93 million miles away from the earth. …
… It's good to say so. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, not your arms, not your biceps, not your shoulders, your pinky, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you care for him? Astronomy magazine. Using the Milky Way as our model, we can multiply the number of stars in a typical galaxy, 100 billion, by the number of galaxies in the universe, 2 trillion. The answer is an absolutely astounding number. There are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in the universe. He made them with his pinky. Now, these folks might be off a few trillion. Doesn't matter. That's impressive. God is great. God is great. We have such teeny notions of greatness because we measure them by our world. He can't even see the world. He has to stoop down to see it according to the Tower of Babel. Like it says, God came down to see what they were building to see how they're going to get to heaven. …
… when I look at your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have set in place pause right there don't miss that David looks he observes. He stops his busy kingly life. He takes the time to look up at night. He pauses to see glory overhead as the majesty of God. I just can't help but ask do you still pause? do you ever stop and look? we carry these devices around with us these distraction devices the pixels pull us in the busyness of 21st century life especially city life pulls us in do you stop? I want to stop I want to have a pace of life That is like Psalm 8 Where there's room for pauses To see majesty in God's world And take it up to the majesty That's above the majesty You can see with your eyes so David stops in his busy kingly life and he observes divine majesty and he unhurriedly meditates on that majesty and he feels deeply about that majesty and he crafts a poem about the majesty of God so that others including us might see it and feel it and express his majesty. …