what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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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. Aren't you glad it's not any closer? …
… I cannot attain to it. What is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you visit him? I need that when the sores on my body are running with pus and the fever won't go down. Job ends where Bildad should have begun. Who can understand? which reminds me of the three most unusual English words you will ever hear adults say. I don't know. Do it again. I don't know. Tomorrow morning, before you shave, guys. as you look at what we have to look at every day, practice the words. I don't know. So that when someone at the office brings up an issue that is beyond you, say, I don't know. When they talk about how God is a good God, and they've listened to the televangelist who told them how everything works out great, just in the next 30 minutes, if you give enough, it'll work out great. And it's amazing how all of it's going to be downhill slide. Just trust him. After all, he's got this wonderful plan and you'll be able to enjoy it. Just give to us 1-800. Just call the number. You remind them you don't know. Say it, say it again, say it again, say it again. You know the living God by faith, but you don't know his ways. His ways are higher than your ways. His These thoughts are greater than your thoughts. …
… 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. That's an image to make it look ridiculous. That's the point of the story. …
… that point to the greater majesty of God, he says, what is man that you're mindful of him or the son of man that you care for him? The answer to David's question is not, man's great. lift your head up David man's great that's not the answer the answer is God is great and God in his greatness is gracious God's great and man is graced grace for man divine favor kindness compassion gentleness for man is the point of Psalm 8 Man is the undeserved recipient of God's kindness. God is strong. He is infinitely strong. That means he does not need to gather up strong people, strong churches, to fill in gaps in his strength. Rather, he is so strong that he gathers up the weak So he can show you how strong he is When he defeats seemingly strong foes through weak people you know how weak a leader is when they pretend to be strong then they got to flank all their weakness with all this strength our God is not like that he is so infinitely strong that he takes babies and infants and weak churches and shows himself strong verse 2 out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established strength because of your foes to still the enemy and the avenger it's a glorious thing that god helps the weak because we are that we are the weak so be candid be honest about weakness embrace it embrace smallness embrace weakness confess it cry for …