Sermon Scribbles: Awe-inspired

“What are mere mortals that you should be mindful of them, human beings that you should care for them?” – Psalm 8:4

This Psalm takes me back to my childhood. I recall warm summer nights laying out in the grass gazing up into the starry night sky and feeling overwhelmed by the vastness of it all. Here I was on planet Earth, in the Solar System, in the Milky Way Galaxy and on and on it would go, oh my! Or I remember looking on at the works of God’s fingers; the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls. The sheer grandeur of these places made me feel both puny and awe-inspired at the same time. The Psalmist was right: “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars you have set in their courses, what are mere mortals that you should be mindful of them…