What Is Man That You Are Mindful of Him?

When I was in school at Mississippi College, I had the added blessing of getting to spend a lot of time with (and getting to know better) my aunt and uncle, Peggy and Bill Miller.

Uncle Bill loved studying the night sky, the moon and stars and the creation related to them.

He taught me to appreciate how incredible it is that the God that put all of that vastness together would care about me, a speck on a speck on a speck in the vastness of the universe.

He taught me to love Psalm 8, one of my two favorite Bible passages to this day:

 

1 Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.

2 Because of Your adversaries, You have established a stronghold from the mouths of children and nursing infants, to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I observe Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place,

4 what is man that You remember him, the son of man that You look after him?

5 You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him lord over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet:

7 all the sheep and oxen, as well as animals in the wild,

8 birds of the sky, and fish of the sea passing through the currents of the seas.

9 Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!

 

A few years ago, my Uncle Bill met face-to-face with the God of the universe, the God who "crowned him with glory and honor". I sure will miss that giant of a speck on a speck on a speck.