What is it to be human?
Sometimes we have such a low view of humanity.
We become so consumed with the failings of people
that we forget that God made us in his image.
We lose track of the fact that we are
the crowning glory of the creation story.
Yet God is not confused about our potential;
He has entrusted so much into our care.
His name is majestic, yet man and woman
Are well worthy of honor themselves.
Hear the word of the Lord:
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Ps 8:1-9:1 – NRSV
Be blessed in being human.
Ron
