A New Start – Day 8

When I was a kid, my dad got into astronomy.  He bought a telescope and would teach us kids about the stars and planets and show us them in the night sky.  It was fascinating to me.  Now it is easy to forget about the vastness of the sky.  Every couple years or so, I will head up to the mountains at night and watch a meteor shower or just check out the sky.  Even with my poor eyesight, it amazes my how many stars I can see and how vast the universe seems.

King David, in Psalm 8:3-4 says, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” (NKJV)

Consider this – the same Creator who spoke the heavens into existence, is mindful of you and me!  He who has the immense power to create the universe with a whisper cares about you!  Verse 2 of that same Psalm reads, “Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger.”  If He can use babies to silence His enemies, how much more can He use you or me?

I think that one of the reasons that He can use children is that they don’t let their preconceptions get in the way of their belief.  Let’s toss aside or thoughts of why God cannot do great things through us and live out the faith that created the heavens.  Like that young boy who looked in awe at the night sky forty years ago, let’s stand in awe of what the Lord can do even now. 

“Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all of the earth!” Psalm 8:9 (NKJV)