Pastor Stef's prayer based on Psalm 8

Lord, all around the world people worship you because of the beautiful story you wrote.
 
Your creation is fantastic, but you are much more fantastic than your creation. 
Even tiny babies declare your praise.
How?
Just look at them.
Is there any other explanation to how uniquely each one has been designed, but you?
That alone should shut the mouths of those who deny your existence.
Let’s see if they can create something like that without any help from you.
 
When I think of the cosmos and realize that we can barely see past our own small galaxy my mind is perplexed. 
To think that every star, every moon, and every planet has been put in its place by you.
And none of this even compares to those little babies you continue to make.
 
Another thing astonishes me.
It’s that though we are small in a cosmos that is small compared to you, we are the most important thing in your creation. 
You even made us in your image and called us to rule your creation.
What a fumble on our part to have forfeited that right by rebelling against you.
 
Yet you still care for us so much that you rescued us through your son Jesus.
Though he was equal with you, and the exact image of your being, he became human to save us from our fall.
 
Your son lowered himself and identified with all of our suffering and temptations, but never gave into them. 
He took our death by being nailed to a cross as an innocent man.
You then raised him up and put a crown on his head.
By rising from the dead, he proved his power over all things.
All glory and honour belong to him.
You made him the King of kings and the one who has authority over everything.
All the wild and domestic animals are under his authority.
All the birds and fish are under his authority.
Everything that walks, swims, and flies is ruled by him.
 
And through Jesus you restored our authority over creation. 
In becoming human Jesus won back our right to be human.
As Christ is your image, we are restored in him to be created in your image.
We now find ourselves ruling alongside Jesus.
God, empower us to exercise our authority over your creation like proper image bearers.
 
What a glorious restoration.
Lord, all around the world people worship you because of the beautiful story you wrote.  

​Devotion by Cora Goodyear
Psalm 8
A psalm of David
This psalm by David speaks of the majesty of God’s name. David considers God’s creation and the insignificance of man in comparison. He wonders what is man that God could be mindful of him. Yet, God has made man ruler over the flocks and herds, beasts of the field, birds, fish and all that swims in the sea. Psalm 8: 4,5,6 are repeated in Hebrews 2: 6,7,8. In Hebrews, these verses refer to Christ.
 
Psalm 8:3 “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place.”
 
David looked and considered the heavens. Most people who lived on this earth have also looked at the heavens and perhaps, considered them.
 
There is a majesty of the heavens – the sky above us (dark at night, clear or clouded in the daytime), the moon (which varies in shape) and the light it provides at night, the stars (sparkling, some closer and brighter, others further in the distance), and the sun which rises every day to light the world, then sets again every evening. What majesty, what a grand design and plan for mankind.
 
David also mentions that this was done by God’s fingers and set into place by him. It is difficult to believe otherwise when we “consider” the heavens.
 
Romans 1:20 says “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” When men observe the wonder of what has been made – they cannot help but realize that only a powerful God could carry out this feat. His power is surely seen – when one considers the heavens.
 
Point: To remember creation is proof of God.