Is your soul on life-support?
The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul.
Do you find yourself stumbling from one foolish decision to another?
The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Is your heart battered and broken and parched?
The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart.
Are your eyes sick and weary of seeking fulfillment from the mirages of sin?
The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Do you find yourself haunted by the frailty of this world and the fleeting nature of its stuff?
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever.
Have you grown calloused to and skeptical of the rampant selfishness of men?
The rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Life is hard and easy to waste.
Psalm 19:7-9 provides the antidote.
No wonder David exclaims,
More to be desired are [God's words] than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. (Psa 19:10-11)
What will you do with God’s antidote today?
“If there is a God, why would He create such a vast universe and put mankind on such a tiny planet?” Ever been asked that kind of question? I found this thought by John Piper to be insightful on the matter.
Sometimes I’m asked how I explain the disproportion between the size of the universe and the smallness of man created as the crown of God’s creation. The tension is felt in Psalm 8:3-5.
My answer is that the magnitude of the universe is not meant to correlate with the image, but with the Original. The heavens are not designed to declare the glory of man. “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalms 19:1). The point of the universe is that God is great and man is infinitely less great.
I did not say man is not great. Psalm 8 says man is great. “A little lower than the heavenly beings.” Now we are ready to see the point of the universe and why Psalm 8 begins and ends, “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” It does not begin and end, “O Man, image of God, how majestic is your name in all the earth.”
Man is great. But compared to God’s greatness, “What is man that you are mindful of him?” The universe is designed to remind us of this distance between’s God’s infinite greatness, and man’s finite greatness. Man must reside on tiny planet earth in a seemingly infinite universe. And the universe must look infinite to be a fitting picture of what it cannot be: infinite. Only God is infinite. The universe is declaring that. Pretty well.
