Psalm 8

Psalm 8-NIV

A psalm of David.

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

² From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise ^[b]
because of 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 man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

⁵ You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings ^[c] and crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶ You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:

⁷ all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,

⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

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

Discuss and praise God for his creations you are enamored with and what can you appreciate with a child-like wonder.

You make everything glorious, what does that make me? What does this mean to us that we are made in not only God’s image but that the God who created all of His splendor, made us and saw that we were good? Relate to Self-Esteem and how this contradicts to messages that we have heard from the world about our worth.

Think about this verse “…be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48) in relation to Psalm 8 especially verses 4 -6. Relate this to how we should treat others and discuss this idea “Being a disciple means deliberately identifying yourself with God’s interest in other people” Oswald Chambers My Upmost for His Highest.