Did you ever lie on your back and look up into the night sky. The stars we can see are only a fraction of the stars and galaxies that are there. Our newer telescopes along with the Hubble telescope are peering deeper and farther into the heavens. (check out http://hubblesite.org/) It seems the vast empty space is filled with light. The psalmist knew this well. In their day there weren’t any city lights to wash out the night view. It was just the earth and the dark night sky filled with natural lights. It was with a sense of awe that they wrote Psalm 8. Read it with your children.
Psalms 8:1 - 9:1 (NRSVA) O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings 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. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen,and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
The Psalm speak of a humble perspective that is experienced by those who knew the night sky well.
Take some time to lie on you back looking up at the night sky and giving thanks to God.
Did you ever lie on your back and look up into the night sky. The stars we can see are only a fraction of the stars and galaxies that are there. Our newer telescopes along with the Hubble telescope are peering deeper and farther into the heavens. (check out http://hubblesite.org/) It seems the vast empty space is filled with light. The psalmist knew this well. In their day there weren’t any city lights to wash out the night view. It was just the earth and the dark night sky filled with natural lights. It was with a sense of awe that they wrote Psalm 8. Read it with your children.
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