When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
It is always humbling when I come to this verse. The world is so big and so vast...and yet so detailed and intricate. And in all that, God knows me. God sent his Son to save me. The same as He knows you and sent his Son to save you. But were one of us the only human at all, He would still have done the same.
Then consider that He knows you and regards you not only in terms of the work of salvation, but He knows and cares...yes, actually, cares...about your everyday life. How awesome is that?
Challenge for Today: If you live somewhere where you can see stars, step outside tonight and take a look. Do this by yourself. And while you're there, consider how many there are, how you can't possibly count them, and God knows each one. But He also knows you, though you are so small looking up at them. If you live in a city or somewhere else with enough light pollution that you either can't see stars at all or can only see the brightest, then find something else that evokes wonder in God's nature and consider it. (If the issue is just clouds, though...wait until a clear night. There is nothing quite like the stars.) And consider that, unless you live in a cabin in the woods or a mountaintop in Hawaii, you probably can't even see all the stars that the Psalmist was considering when he wrote this Psalm. There are very few places left where you can!
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I've had that same experience. I went to UT's MacDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of Texas, supposedly one of the darkest places in all of North America, and saw so many stars. In my ignorance I asked the staff astonomer if we had determined how many stars there are yet, he responded with something like, "They are uncountable. Put it this way, there are more stars than there are granuals of sand on the entire earth." Imagine that for a second. The universe is truly HUMONGOUS and the number of stars beyond human measure. They showed us star clusters that with the naked eye from earth look like a single star, but in actuality they were billions of stars! I'm still mesmerized by the experience and highly recommend the trip to anyone wishing to fulfill Calinda's request of taking a look at the stars and considering how wonderful our God is to create all of them and us as well!
ReplyDeleteI camped in West Texas and experienced the stars without the moon or man made lights anywhere around. It was an experience that can't be imagined without seeing it. God's creation is beyond compare.
ReplyDeleteI was thrilled to go outside and find out that we can see stars from where we are. Yay! It's been awhile. (We lived right next to DFW airport up until a little over a month ago. Stars were visible, but only the very brightest ones, and those sometimes turned out to be planes, too.) Where we live now, we can see stars. When I was growing up, we lived on a farm, and the stars were just awesome. There were barely any lights...a light next door at the dairy barn and then way in the distance some lights at the coal mine. (Over a mile away.) But that was pretty much it. We can't see stars like THAT where we are now, but we can at least see some... and it's just awesome to think about how many more there are.
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