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February 12

In the thinking of many in our day and age, God has been relegated to a minor position in His own creation. To countless people, man, not God, is the measure of all things. Some seemingly religious persons go a dangerous step further, saying that we human beings are really gods ourselves. Many believe that we have the power within ourselves to solve all our own—and the world’s—problems.

Just pick up a newspaper or watch TV news, and you will readily conclude that with all our technological knowledge and whatever superior qualities we think we possess, the world is in a greater mess than perhaps at any other time in history.

David, the psalmist, though he was Israel’s greatest king and probably its most skilful general, was one who was very reverent and humbly respectful of God and His creation. He was likely outside one night, looking up . . . and the awesome experience impelled him to write the Psalm, which we designate, the eighth.

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?

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings

and crowned him with glory and honor

(Psalm 8:3–5).

After adding further to the list of humankind’s God–given blessings, he reverently concludes in the last verse of the Psalm: O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

That puts the whole matter in proper perspective.