Psalm 8

Psalm 8 has always had a special place when it comes to my list of very-best-favorite verses; ever since first I read it alone in the empty sanctuary before service in my little church. Perhaps it is because I have a curious nature and it voices one of the questions I ponder most: Why?
 What can He possibly see in Mankind worth sending His only Son to die for us? Certainly not because of anything we have ever done.
  It is, I think, a question to which there is no humanly comprehensible answer. But that doesn't stop me from wondering.

 Lord, our Lord, 

   how majestic is your name in all the earth!

   You have set your glory 

   in the heavens. 

 Through the praise of children and infants 

   you have established a stronghold against your enemies, 

   to silence the foe and the avenger. 

 When I consider your heavens, 

   the work of your fingers, 

the moon and the stars, 

   which you have set in place, 

what is mankind that you are mindful of them, 

   human beings that you care for them?

 You have made them a little lower than the angels

   and crowned them with glory and honor. 

 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; 

   you put everything under their feet: 

 all flocks and herds, 

   and the animals of the wild, 

 the birds in the sky, 

   and the fish in the sea, 

   all that swim the paths of the seas.

  Lord, our Lord, 

   how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Makes you think, doesn't it?

-Gwyn