Psalm 8
Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?[c]
5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]
and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their[g] feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
One of the ways that I have been seeing God lately is in the idea of what is “good.” Sometimes I like to joke around and say that we misspelled God. We were missing an o. We often say it though. “God is good,” we say.
Yes, God is Good. All the time. We also believe that all good things come from God.
We also believe God is love.
And love is good.
Right?
Stay with me.
So, God is good. What if God represents everything that is good, in some beautiful, magical way? Well, then it changes the way we see today’s scripture. In verse 3 of today’s scripture it talks about God, (who I will now refer to by the word goodness, or good, or love), loves us so much. Let me rephrase that. Goodness, the good, everything that is good loves us. It desires nothing but goodness for us, through us and even in spite of us.That’s a nice thought.
It’s nice to think that love desires us so much that it promises to chase and care for us with as much intention as the care of the entire world and universe. This gives me hope. It gives me hope to believe that no matter how much bad I believe is out there or after me, that good always wins.
Good always wins. Love wins.
So start today or end the night with that positive thought. No matter how bad things are, goodness wins in the end. Because God is good. God is love.
Peace to you my friends.