Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“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!”
Psalm 8 (NIV)
We have all had them—days maybe like today, or the last few. Personally, and as a family, and with others.
Days where we feel less. Where we don’t know what’s coming next.
We feel out of control. And don’t know the next steps to take.
Where mountains rise up before us, and we can’t see how we will ever get around, over, or beyond them. Then empty, endless valleys stretch out before us, and the end is nowhere in sight.
Days, maybe like today, of disappointment, unexpected illnesses, or the heartbreaking loss of a loved one.
We have all had those days.
But then God. And God’s never-ending presence. Reminding us always, and now again, as we begin this season of Lent—to turn, to remember, draw nearer, and reflect on the majesty and the glory in the presence of God.
In all our days. For all our moments.
As we remember other days, we didn’t think we would get beyond.
But then there was God. Right?
And we remember feeling the peace of God’s presence overwhelming us as we gazed into the heavens, and saw the stars and moon He flung in place, and felt the breezes He sent blowing through our hair.
All moving us beyond what we were facing then, and on to a new day.
Having one of those days, again? So then, God. And God’s Son.
While also moving through this Lenten season toward Easter—toward the moment of celebration reminding us once again of the Hope-filled empty tomb.
Something only God could orchestrate—an empty tomb, yet full—of Hope.
Reminding, promising, and assuring us—that with Him, we can take the next steps we will face in the days ahead. And through the promise of the empty tomb, we will climb the mountains before us, cross the long valleys, begin to feel peace in the disappointments and heartaches we go through, and find clarity in the uncertainties of tomorrow, all through the Hope and the power of the Risen Christ.
God. The majesty and glory of His Name. Everywhere. Always and forever here.
For you and for me.
Reminding us through the words Tom Fettke wrote in “The Majesty and Glory of Your Name,” where we read—
“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…
O Lord, our God the majesty and glory of your name,
Transcends the earth and fills the heavens…”
We have all had them—days where we feel out of control, lost, heartbroken, empty, where we don’t know what to do next, or what may be coming next.
In all those days, and more—God.
In His Name–Scott
You will find peace, assurance, promise, and hope in this performance of “The Majesty and Glory of Your Name” by the First Baptist Dallas Choir and Orchestra.
