Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“O Lord our God, the majesty and glory of your name fills all the earth and overflows the heavens. You have taught the little children to praise you perfectly. May their example shame and silence your enemies!
When I look up into the night skies and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you have made—I cannot understand how you can bother with mere puny man, to pay any attention to him!
And yet you have made him only a little lower than the angels and placed a crown of glory and honor upon his head.
You have put him in charge of everything you made; everything is put under his authority: all sheep and oxen, and wild animals too, the birds and fish, and all the life in the sea. O Jehovah, our Lord, the majesty and glory of your name fills the earth.”
Psalm 8 (TLB)“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18: 3 (NKJV)
They are born with an innate sense of wonder.
An attitude of awe and amazement, perhaps even an attitude of praise for observers like you and me to also see, sense, and embrace in our own lives.
Children created by God with that sense of awe and amazement of the picture of His creation all around them which the Psalmist paints in Psalm 8.
A sense in their life, that amid God’s creation which they see all around them, that no matter what they face—they can.
And a sense, it is hoped, that they will later come to identify as God, and that God’s fingerprints are everywhere within His creation everywhere around them.
Pointing to their example, Jesus says to us—
“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18: 3 (NKJV)
Calling us to see the world through the lens of a child who, usually and hopefully, is living in full dependence upon and trusting in their parents. A relationship Christ calls us to have with Him, to assure our eternal place with Him, beginning here, and then on into eternity.
Take a moment now to find that child-like rest and perspective for yourself, in these words of the song “The Majesty and Glory of Your Name” by Tom Fettke and Linda Lee Johnson, as they share—
“When I gaze into the night skies,
and see the work of your fingers;
The moon and stars suspended in space.
Oh, what is man that you are mindful of him?
You have given man a crown of glory and honor.
And have made him a little lower than the angels.
You have put him in charge of all creation:
The beasts of the field.
The birds of the air, the fish of the sea.
Oh, what is man? (oh, what is man?)
Oh, what is man that you are mindful of him?
O Lord, our God the majesty and glory of your name,
Transcends the earth and fills the heavens.
O Lord, our God; little children praise You perfectly,
And so would we. And so would we.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
The majesty and glory of Your name.”
Little children praise you perfectly.
And so would we.
And so should we.
The Majesty and Glory of Your Name.
In His Name–Scott
Now take a moment of child-like rest and perspective for yourself, as you listen to the First Baptist Dallas Choir and Orchestra bless you with a magnificent performance of the song “The Majesty and Glory of Your Name”—
