A Couple Thoughts on Psalm 8, and Our Responsibility to Creation

I'm reading Psalm 8 this morning and I just start fiddling around with an outline...

1. The Greatness of God.
His glory is in evidence in the vastness of the sky and space, but also in the smallness of a baby's first cry. Bono says, "My first cry was a joyful noise." When a baby cries it is evidence of God's amazing creative power in making life.

2. The Graciousness of God.
"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" What is the best thing you've ever created? I've made some neat pictures from time to time... Nothing I've every made compares to things like the moon and the stars. Yet God still cares for me and demonstrates grace toward me.

3. The Giftedness of Man.
Because of his grace, God has chosen to appoint man as his representatives on earth. He's given us charge over creation; over the animals, over the birds, and the fish, and everything in the sea. We are to take care of it as He would. Have you ever felt honored because someone you greatly admired thought enough of you to give you a significant job? How hard did you work?

The creator of the universe has given you a job to serve as his representative to all creation. How hard will you work at this?

When a great God
Gives a gracious gift
We must be faithful and wise
in our application.