Between Sundays for Week of June 16, 2025
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1)
Psalm 8 gives us a vision of a God who is out there. It evokes thoughts of nights spent under expansive skies studying the stars and watching for satellites and asking big questions – Who is God? and Who am I?
Who is God? Psalm 8 suggests that God is glory and majesty and this is visible everywhere we look – whether it be the furthest reaches of the galaxy or the smallest particles of matter. There is no where we look where God’s glory and majesty is not somehow discernable. There is no where we look where God’s creative power is not visible.
If Psalm 8 reveals to us God’s glory and majesty is visible everywhere, then the Holy Trinity reveals to us that God’s glory and majesty is revealed to the world in deeply relational ways. In other words, God is not only visible in the created universe, God is also revealed as flesh and blood in Jesus; and as the guiding, challenging presence of the Holy Spirit.
Who am I? Psalm 8 gives insight to this question as well.
What are humans that you are mindful of them
mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God
and crowned them with glory and honor. (vs. 4-5)
We are those crowned with God’s glory and honor! We might question God’s wisdom, but Psalm 8 doesn’t give us that option. Crowned with God’s own glory and honor, we lie at the center of God’s plan for God’s abundance to be revealed! It’s as if God has made us understudies whose tasks is to watch, to learn, and to be ready to act when the world around us calls out for God’s love to be made visible in word or deed.
This is the crown we bear. It is a wonder that the triune God entrusts us with this role. We will always fall short. God knows, each new day brings evidence of our failure to love, or to build bridges, or to celebrate the diversity of God’s creation. And yet we continue to watch and learn and act as best we can when the moment comes.
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! (vs. 9)
May our lives bear witness to the crown of majesty that we bear!
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Faith Connection at Home
This week our faith connection happens in community at the Family Summer Solstice Cookout! All are invited!
Ponderings
Psalm 8 says, “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars you have set in their courses. . . .” In 2022, NASA released the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing extraordinary images of galaxies and black holes, stars and supernovas in dazzling color and detail. View these images for yourself and then read and reflect on Psalm 8. What images of God’s handiwork would you identify as being filled with God’s glory?