Week Seven - Day Four: End of Day

In writing about the sovereignty of God, Charles Spurgeon said “There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than God’s sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, they believe that Sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.” As we have noted this week, if we are to believe in this very big, very other-than-human God, then our belief will necessarily lead to surrender and praise!

Surrender and praise! He increases and we decrease. Surrender and praise! We are able to rest and become free of worry and drivenness. Surrender and praise! He becomes our vision and we are enabled to lose sight of ourselves. Surrender and praise!

Speaking of losing sight of ourselves, what do we make of ourselves in such a spiritual environment? So, now we are able to read Psalm 8. Let’s do it.

Psalm 8

(1) LORD, our Lord,
      how majestic is your name in all the earth!
      You have set your glory
      in the heavens.

(2) Through the praise of children and infants
      you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
      to silence the foe and the avenger.

(3) When I consider your heavens,
      the work of your fingers,
      the moon and the stars,
      which you have set in place,

(4) what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
      human beings that you care for them?

(5) You have made them a little lower than the angels
      and crowned them with glory and honor.

(6) You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
      you put everything under their feet:

(7) all flocks and herds,
      and the animals of the wild,

(8) the birds in the sky,
      and the fish in the sea,
      all that swim the paths of the seas.

(9) LORD, our Lord,
      how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Lights out!