Scripture: Psalm 8:3-5
When I look up at your skies, at what your fingers made— the moon and the stars that you set firmly in place—what are human beings that you think about them; what are human beings that you pay attention to them? You’ve made them only slightly less than divine, crowning them with glory and grandeur.
Thought for the Day: Remembering how the Psalms are not a scientific description, but poetic, the language of “only slightly less than divine” and “crowning them with glory and grandeur” is fascinating. I guess we are to feel good about who we are, but not arrogant. We are not to take our special position as permission to run amuck, but St. Augustine suggested that true freedom is not found in moving away from our unique place and relationship with God, but in our decision to live into position. We are never to confuse ourselves with God, but we are not to feel so low that we see ourselves incapable of doing what it is that God has called us to do. The poet did not say, “You were made slightly better than a slug.” I do not believe the intent was to put us in our place, but inspire our vision of what is possible as those who were created only slightly less than divine.
Prayer: What is it about me that is a little like you, O God. Do you have fingers and toes, or is it something a little less about my physical characteristics? Assist my thinking and my imagination as I explore what it means to be one who has been crowned with glory and grandeur. Amen.
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