In the Waiting: Psalm 8
“O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens.” (Ps.8:1)
Your majestic name fills the earth. Your glory is everywhere!
The sky, the stars, the seas, the mountains, the trees, the flowers
The peacocks, the penguins, the poodles, the prawns
A single hawk in flight, a river teeming with fish, a trail through a wooded forest
A cry of a newborn baby, a daughter on her wedding day
A living room with friends who listen to God together, a kind word, an unexpected gift
A lover’s gaze, a graveside lined with mourners
A winding prayer labyrinth, a wordless prayer, a hymn of praise, a quiet place to rest
A child’s playful laughter, a meal shared with those in need, a joyful “welcome home,”
A person made in the image of God who is seen and heard and beloved
“When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?
Yet you made them only a little lower than God
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You gave them charge of everything you made,
putting all things under their authority—
the flocks and the herds
and all the wild animals,
the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
and everything that swims the ocean currents.” (Ps. 8:3-8)
Why, in all the created universe, did you make humankind in your image? Why do think about us and care for us the way you do? The mystery of the incarnation is expressed in your humble entrance into our human experience - to laugh and to love, to feel loneliness and rejection, to befriend and experience betrayal, to see and to serve, to cry, to suffer, and to die.
Thank you, Jesus, for being the One of whom this Psalm is written. Thank you for creating us to desire you, to seek you, to be found by you, to worship you, and to be with you. Capture our attention and ignite our imagination as we wait on you.
“O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!”