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Psalm 8

The Majesty of God in Creation

1. Majesty in Weakness

1. Majesty in Weakness

Out of the mouths of babes and infants

you have founded a bulwark because of your

foes, to silence the enemy and

the avenger. (Verse 2)

1. Majesty in WeaknessOur God contracted to a spanIncomprehensibly made man

Charles Wesley, 1707-1788

1. Majesty in WeaknessLike a stone on the surface of a still riverDriving the ripples on foreverRedemption rips through the surface of timeIn the cry of a tiny babe

Bruce Cockburn, 1945-

1. Majesty in WeaknessBlessed are the poor in spirit -Blessed are the meekFor theirs shall be the kingdomThat the power mongers seekBlessed are the dead for loveAnd those who cry for peaceAnd those who love the gift of earth -May their gene pool increase

Bruce Cockburn, 1945-

1. Majesty in WeaknessThe shipwrecked at the stable are the poor in spirit who feel lost in the cosmos, adrift on an open sea, clinging with a life-and-death desperation to the one solitary plank …

… The shipwrecked come to the stable seeking not to possess but to be possessed, wanting not peace or a religious high, but Jesus Christ.

Brennan Manning, 1934-

2. Majesty in Insignificance


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? (Psalm 8, verses 3-4)


2 – 400,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way

170,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe

Source: www.wolframalpha.com


Third stone from the sun

Dust in the wind

2. Majesty in Insignificance‘fifteen different numbers that have to be exactly what they are for stars and planets to form, to the tune of one part in a million and in some cases, one part in a million million)’

‘That’s why scientists, looking at the astonishing facts of our universe, use phrases like ‘fine-tuning’ and ‘cosmic welcome mat’, and even say things like, ‘The universe looks as if it knew we were coming’.’

(Page 51)

2. Majesty in InsignificanceYet you have made them a little lower than God,

and crowned them with glory and honour. (Psalm 8, verse 5)

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.(Verses 6-8)

2. Majesty in InsignificanceCreative management of God’s world

Moral management for the good of all

A community of good relationships

O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

(Verses 1 and 9)

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