Daily Worship

Peace and hope

Jane Denniston June 22, 2017 0 0
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Psalm 8

Psalm 8 

1 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!

 

Romans 5:1-8

5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

I gaze into the cathedral of the sky

and I am swept away!

I see infinity

and I am small,

    tiny,

        insignificant;

a comma in the endless script

of the universe.

 

Yet you, O Lord, gaze back at me.

You notice me

and care for me.

 

Your love is as vast as the universe

as endless as the light years of the stars.

And in that love, you sent your son

to die, that we might have peace and a hope!

 

Help me not to be trapped by awe

but to be swept up in your purposes

that I might return your love

and in the strength of your spirit

walk in your paths.