Psalm 8: God's Handiwork

As of a few days ago, this being October 26, 2015, there is a beautiful sight in the pre-dawn sky, that being the planets Venus and Jupiter being close to each other.  The sermon below, fits so beautifully with this beautiful sight.  I just don't know how anyone can look at the stars and not be convicted or believe in the Creator.

God's Handiwork

Psalm 8:1-9 "O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and avenger.  When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.  O LORD our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth."
 
This Psalm detaches us from human problems and anxieties and transfers our mind to distant unexplored regions.  This Psalm is true elevated thought.  If you have ever gone out on a clear starry night, away from those street lights which obliterate 90% of the glory of God, if you stay in the dark until your eyes get adjusted to the dark and then you look at the heavens, the things that God has made, and you see the different colors, and the shooting stars;  if you use binoculars and look at the night sky, just the pure size of it, you will feel very, very small.  And that is what David saw, and when he saw it, it made him think about God and it made him worship God because creation points to the Creator.  The Psalm opens in V1 with admiration of God, "O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens".  O Jehovah, our Jehovah.  Excellent means how large, how wide is the authority of thy name in all the earth.  The word glory means grandeur, majesty or outshining.  God's glory, the outshining of God is above all the heavens.  It is pre-eminent over the heavens.  God you are so great, your glory - your outshining is beyond the heavens.  You outshine the heavens in your glory.  

When David looked at the creation, the earth and the heavens, it made him think of a big God.  It didn't lead to petty thoughts.  He didn't go out and see this creation and then have little petty thoughts.  He was thinking that God is great and other things receded into the background.  It gave him a proper view of God, a proper perspective.  Sometimes as Christians we think of a limited God like us, but we need to look at the stars more.  So in this Psalm of David firstly we see an admiration of God, and secondly the admiration led to a wonder of God's greatness revealed in his creation.