Psalm 8 ~ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place

 Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge Mount Pleasant and Charleston SC

Proverbs 38:16-20
“Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?
 Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
    Declare, if you know all this.

 “Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
    and where is the place of darkness,
 that you may take it to its territory
    and that you may discern the paths to its home?

Proverbs 38:12-13
Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
and caused the dawn to know its place,
that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth

Psalm 8

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I look at 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,
and the son of man that you care for him?

5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

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


And all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by,
John Masefeild wrote.

There are days, aspects of life, when the wind lifts your hair. God is in His Heaven - all is right in the world. Seasons of joy. Far better are the days when our internal compass points much farther.

Philippians 2:9-11
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Job 11:7
Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

Job 22:12
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Job 11:8
They are higher than the heavens above--what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below--what can you know?

Job 35:5
Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.

Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God proves true;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Job 40 

 And the Lord said to Job:

 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
    He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Job 40
32 Behind him he leaves a shining wake;

one would think the deep to be white-haired.

33 On earth there is not his like,

a creature without fear.

34 He sees everything that is high;

he is king over all the sons of pride.”


When a rock is thrown into water, rings of energy result. What does that wake Jesus gives us say?

Psalm 23:6
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.

1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you, 12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, 13 so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.


Jesus is the One who is Good. Those who met Him left behind pleasant ways of life. Home. Hearth. And lives were made richer in meaningful thoughts.

What drew them to Jesus? One of the most astonishing aspects of Jesus is found in the first chapter of the Gospel of John. Jesus called and they knew Him to be God.

1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.

John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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