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Sunday Psalms;

When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? 

Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.
You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority - the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals...
Psalms 8:3-7 NLT
Have you ever looked up at the night sky in wonder as David did?
Looked at some aspect of creation in detail, held a newborn child, looked at the expanse of the world from a mountainside, a high point, and wondered about why God cares about you?
David did. 
And here in this song is the answer he got.
Humans are amazing.
God has made us different form all other creatures, and closer to God than we realise.
As Genesis says, made in His image. 
Crowned with glory and honour.
Perhaps "glory and honour" doesn't sit too well, how about mana, worth, value...
This song of David's seems to be reminding us of our inherent, our in-built, born with, worth, value, mana. 
And the redemptive strand is the invitation to live in that truth today...
#psalms
#songs
#redemptivestrands 
#youareenough

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